One Ouya a year... keeps the doctor away from here..

Hi Ouyans!

Yes, Ouya fans are now Ouyans, I hope you like it, if no.. doesn't matter ;) 

What I want to talk today is, as you can easily imagine, the Julie Hurman's decision of upgrading the Ouya hardware every year.

Julie said : the company will upgrade the console on annual basis, taking advantage of faster and more powerful processors, all the while maintaining its 99$ price point.

Due to its Android-based Operating System, Hurman assures that each new Ouya with refreshed hardware will preserve backward compatibility, thought, obviously older consoles may be unable to run more advances titles as time goes on.
Surprisingly and in an original way, the consoles will take on new naming conventions to reflect the annual upgrades, such as Ouya 2, 3.. and so on.

What do you think about it?
The console hasn't been released yet and we can already see a new Ouya (with a NVidia Tegra 4 on board) in sight.

Do you agree with the Ouya's company roadmap?
What about the fragmentation?

Let us know!

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If The Ouya Fails, You (Probably) Won’t Be Getting Your Money Back

What will happen if those 63,000 bakers won't see a return on their investment in the form of an Ouya console?

An NPR report on the service spoke with Julie Uhrman and here is what she said.

"Technically, from the Kickstarter perspective, I actually don't know the answer to that," she said. "But from a doing-the-right-thing perspective, we will treat our backers the best possible way."

That's when Ouya PR rep Tiffany Spencer says, "That's a Kickstarter policy question."

So NPR reporter Aarti Shahani asks Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler whether, in the unlikely event the Ouya can't be delivered, would the company be able to intervene?

"You know, that would be new ground," he replied. "I don't know. I mean, no, I don't think that we would. But certainly, the kind of thing you're talking about is not a bridge that has been crossed yet. Someday it will. And you know, I think if something did go awry, it would be - it wouldn't be my favorite day."

I know the service is still in its infancy, and that with so much money and talent behind it the Ouya should arrive just fine, but those are not words that inspire confidence in Kickstarter's ability to manage things when, inevitably, something comes along that does screw people over.

You can read the full story here

Source : kotaku

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OUYA reached $7.000.000

From OUYA kickstarter official page : 

With fewer than 40 hours remaining in our Kickstarter campaign, it’s still business as usual at OUYA headquarters. We continue to jam on the task at hand, but we’ve got four quick announcements to share with you in this update.First: We’ve been hearing requests from all over the Internet for a media player. Well we’re proud to announce that we will be working with XBMC.That’s right. The award-winning, open source media player and entertainment hub is coming to OUYA. We’ve heard many of you buzzing about a potential OUYA-XBMC hook-up since Day One of launch. (Something of a match made in open source heaven!) Now, with a few hours left in our drive, we’re delivering.
Believe it, friends: XBMC, on OUYA, on your TV, legit.Here it is, straight from the XBMC team:Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe it was because of the hundreds, if not thousands, of demands on Twitter, in blogs, on Facebook, in Reddit, and in Kickstarter comments. Maybe it's because many of Team OUYA support XBMC, and nearly a third of Team XBMC members are OUYA backers.Regardless, we are delighted to announce that XBMC will be working with OUYA to ensure that XBMC works well on the OUYA platform. OUYA's Android underpinnings and XBMC's work on Android (soon to be merged into master, pending final sign-offs!) will dramatically speed up that effort, as will early XBMC dev access to OUYA prototypes.The conversation between our two teams is young, but talk is ongoing and positive. We look forward to providing more exciting news on this front as it develops.- Nathan Betzen, XBMC Community ManagerAnd to our friends outside the US: we hear you. XBMC runs in over 40 different languages.
But that’s not all. 
We’re boosting our radio reception around the world. We’ve partnered with TuneIn, a free service that lets people listen to the world's music, sports and news from wherever they are. With over 70,000 stations and two million on-demand programs, TuneIn offers unmatched variety for listeners across 230 countries and territories.
Enough of the tell and tell, we’ve also got some show and tell: That’s right! New renders for you. Eager to answer your questions about the size of OUYA, the team at fuseproject created some images to demonstrate the scale of the console and controller. Scroll down to check them out. 
And, I guess I will end this update on a housekeeping note. Throughout our run on Kickstarter, our campaign page has served as the official OUYA information resource. After the campaign closes, we will unveil a new OUYA site at www.ouya.tv that will serve as OUYA central moving forward.So with that, I’d like to thank you all once more for believing in this project and supporting it from the beginning. Again, we only have a handful of hours remaining, so please tell your friends about what we’re trying to do here. It’s your support that makes OUYA possible.

          -Julie

Flash news : Another Julie Uhrman interview

Another interview of Julie Uhrman (this time from Bloomberg TV) CEO of OUYA project here ..Stay tuned!

In this video, Julie Uhrman, CEO of Boxer8 and founder of OUYA, talks about her project