This news displeases me... They took my favourite female game character and turned her into a scared little girl with Other M - Team Ninja are clearly too sexist to produce a respectable Metroid title.

As a pure GNU/Linux desktop user since 2007, this news is perhaps the single greatest piece of gaming news I've ever heard. I imagine having a bunch of avid gamers playing steam games on GNU/Linux distros would basically work as a large pool of free beta-testers for Valve's inevitable SteamBox.

There has to be a first person to commit to an exclusive - who cares if this isn't all that exciting?

Personally, I'm not that bothered about exclusive content, since any content is exclusive if its the only way you're going to access it. I just hope OnLive doesn't completely collapse, as that is one of the features of the OUYA I was most excited about.

For me, however, it's the open-ness (and FOSS base) of the console that I find most exciting - not what games have been announced for it. This is the next console I hope to buy, though I'm very curious about the potential for a SteamBox, now that we've seen the patent application.

[QUOTE="FireEmblem_Man"]

All I see is the console only caters to developers and not the consumers.

Slow_Show

How does a $99 open-source console not cater to consumers? Even if it totally bombs and not a single game is released for the platform, you've still got a hell of a media streamer/classic console emulator (for all your legal ROMs, natch)/who knows what else the Android community will cook up, all for the same price as the less powerful/flexible Apple TV.

4.5 million dollars down the drain.

JayQproductions

In real life you'd say: "Hey want to play some awesome indie games? Oh you do? How would you like to do it on a console that respects your freedom? A lot? Awesome, you have to see my OUYA - it''s right next to my Rasberry Pi."

I've put my money into this, and I can't wait for it to come out. $99 for the console, $30 for a second controller and $20 to have it shipped to the UAE. The power of the console is of no concern to me. The idea of an Indie-dev-friendly piece of kit, built on FOSS, which makes rooting painless, is more than enough to make me want to give them my money. This means one less piece of proprietary software in my home - and that is always a good thing. I think they've got a decent strategy, a good team, and an idea which is gaining ground all over the world. I don't care if this directly competes with the "big 3" - just like I don't care that my phone was abandoned by Nokia - it still rocks hard, and because it's open, ir will always have support.

I would like to cast my vote for Penguins for 3 reasons:

1) It's built on the Linux kernel, whose mascot is Tux the Penguin.

2) The most popular Android game is Angry Birds and Penguins are a bird.

3) Penguins are flightless, and a fair number of people here seem to thing the OUYA has no hope of getting off the ground.

For what it's worth - I'm more excited about this console than anything in a long while. With this, I can have one less piece of proprietary software in my life. Open Source on my PC (Debian on my Dell), my phone (Maemo on my n900) and home console (Android on OUYA)? Sign me up!

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[QUOTE="Tezcatlipoca666"]

lol, is that Scientific Linux? :P

Tezcatlipoca666

Yes indeed, 6.1 - if it's good enough for CERN and Fermilab, it's good enough for me! Well spotted. I see you're using Linux Mint 11 - a fine choice. I almost dual booted with that, then decided at the last minute to go with PiguyOS (if I'm gonna have an OOTB desktop on my PC, might as well go the whole hog lol).

Awesome :P I now know of TWO people who use it. Haha.

Pinguy is pretty good although too cluttered for my tastes. I generally like going with something more basic and then adding what I want. Luckily Mint provides most of what I like ootb... otherwise I might have gone for Arch.

Anyway, I'm way off topic now :lol:

Damn, I'm going to start by following you off the deep end, then end vaguely on-topic. I moved to SL after using Slackware for a few years and wanting something more luxurious, so I get where you're comming from - the Slacker in me has been screaming "BLOAT!!" ever since I made the move. That said, Pinguy has basically every program I will ever use, plus absolutely insane repos - and I love conky, docky and gnome-do. Yeah it has a heavy RAM footprint (for Linux) but it's surprisingly responsive. It's bassically Mint (which I love) plus every app and plugin I would install anyway. The mildly on-topic reason for Pinguy is that it comes pre-set with wine and playonlinux, and direct integration with the system so .exe files open like native applications - no hoop-jumping required, for all my PC gaming needs :)

lol, is that Scientific Linux? :P

Tezcatlipoca666

Yes indeed, 6.1 - if it's good enough for CERN and Fermilab, it's good enough for me! Well spotted. I see you're using Linux Mint 11 - a fine choice. I almost dual booted with that, then decided at the last minute to go with PiguyOS (if I'm gonna have an OOTB desktop on my PC, might as well go the whole hog lol).