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Originally Posted by KC Fish
Cripple MS and Sony? The companies that already have actual successful products in the market? LOL... how?
Do you think developers and game distributors are going to drop their successful profiting contracts they currently have to create games for an open source environment? Why on earth would they?
The only thing that Kickstarter has done with Ouya is take people's money and make promises. That's it. They have no distribution system in place, no manufacturing at all, and no existing customer base.
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The fact developers will get open sourced and control of their product. Like I said before they only need to do a small part of their goal.
Many players a android based gaming system will be perfect. The finished product would be 150 to 200 bucks, games going from free to 25 bucks. Look how many people in the console threads hate muliplayer or online gaming. Then add the fact prices of games are outrageous for most, now they are adding paid updates which will be the new revenue maker.
It will probably fail, but they made enough capital to give it a chance.
They do not need to follow the status quo, rovio and zynga are perfect examples. If they pull off the hardware, upstart gaming companies will follow, especially if they get to control their future. All they have to do is become the rovio of consoles. Hell, I don't doubt google is behind this and this is a homegrown effort.