Ouya, the first console Android, on sale for 99 euros - The País.com (Spain)

Ouya is considered a triumph of community, an alternative to the giants of the video game world with the cloud as an ally, ie, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. The console was born the idea of ??a group of developers who decided to seek funding through Kickstarter a crowdfunding site. Within weeks achieved their goal: 8 million euros to build the device, although initially only asking 700,000.

The proposal was interesting: for less than 100 euros early investors became one of the first units in addition to recognition for their support. Two months ago started shipping and from today anyone can buy over the Internet, provided that the delivery address is in the U.S., UK and Canada. This restriction does not exist to fund the project, but it is precisely the most controversial, as many investors are waiting for your unit, just when goes on sale.

The first units, offered through Amazon, have been exhausted within a few hours. The same has happened with additional control knobs. Despite cost half the price of the console, is complete with the supply.

Since the industry has seen with skepticism. The big three in the sector consider that target a niche market that does not exist, a group of indies with the illusion of a tighter market prices and innovation.

class=”c8″ Ouya has several peculiarities. For example, the games are free. The initial catalog part with 170 titles. We only charge for add-ons and expansions, but within the original proposal is included the promise of hours of fun without having to pay. Another peculiarity is that the head of the company is a woman, id=”docs-internal-guid-419d2537-7c65-2d15-56df-72c02581220e” class=”c5″> , traditionally a very masculine world.

The device not noted for its hardware. The design is carefully polished cube which has rear USB port and cable to connect to the Net The idea is to make up for the power of the central apparatus, with Tegra 3 processor, common in next generation tablets with constant Internet connection to have the power and additional servers. The package will compañado a single command, but to play with a limit of four.

For this amount can not expect large deployments. Only have eight gigabytes of internal memory, support up to four wireless, and is pensanda to download Internet games and especially online play.

During E3, the annual video game, knew how to exploit their sympathy to supplement the lack of means. Instead of having an area within the enclosure planted a trailer in the parking lot across the street. From early afternoon until sunset permit test the first units while inviting beers. In that case, rather than go to the final consumer, trying to curry favor with developers.

Interestingly, the circle closes the console where he was born. Kickstarter is flooding with fundraising projects and making games in this format. You can find a puzzle with role-air, a kind of Tetris, a peculiar pinball, a title shot in space, a graphic adventure style pixelated old school to an interpretation of Risk with armored cars. Among the studies already working on this platform out Double Fine.