A CHALLENGER APPEARS! And it’s probably the last thing anybody might have expected – a cheap, Android-based console that comes packed with a devkit and the rights to self-publish, and a feature list that includes hardware “built to be hacked” and an entirely free-to-play catalogue.
The console has just been announced by Ouya, a new Los Angeles startup backed by Xbox co-creator Ed Fries, Amazon Kindle man Muffi Ghadiali, One Laptop Per Child designer Yves Béhar, and IGN’s Julie Uhrman.
Not much else about the console has been made public just yet, although it’s been confirmed that it will plug into TVs, and retail at just $99 (around R800 or so). Being built on Android, it’s likely that most games will be more casually-oriented, but considering what developers are already doing in the mobile space, you never know what you might get in the future.
Also, the console looks like some kind of extraterrestrial artefact from a superhero movie, so that’s pretty cool too.
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That’s cheap!