Me too. I'm on wait and see on the Ouya and I'm actually more intrigued at how it'll influence the Android gaming side. If the games on the Ouya make it to Google Play with controller support, then the machine is kinda redundant. It may even kill it.

Ouya doesn't have the big, big specs, but I think it's adequate. You don't need drop dead gorgeous graphics. It helps, but it doesn't define a game.

C'mon now, that's a gross oversimplification. It offers many of the advantages of console gaming, and other useful things such as; support for multiple controllers on the same device, internet TV without having an internet TV (with the added bonus of being able to choose from a wide variety of Android browsers), cross device integration, and the immersion experience you get from sitting down and playing on a big screen instead of on your phone.

All that, and we won't even have to repurchase our games.

Another thing to consider is kids. While there are already many kids games on Google Play, most parents won't want to give young kids smartphones that cost hundreds of dollars to walk around with. Spending $100 on a games console is an entirely different proposition, especially when the games cost a fraction of what wii games cost. If nothing else, it leads to a wide choice of demographic targets for Android developers to choose from, and I don't see why anyone would think that's a bad thing.

The Ouya could have positive or negative influence or it may do nothing. It's really a waiting game.

The best thing it can do imo, is provide indy developers a new shop window. Sure you can get them easy enough on PC, and there are things like xbox arcade. But indy games seem to take a back seat to larger titles most of the time. Without Xbox or Sony calling the shots, small developers might have a chance to bring their games to a new audience of console gamers.

Whether the content is any good, we'll have to wait and see. Certainly I could be interested in picking one up. But it would depend on exactly what games it provides. In the meantime I'm not going to bash it, unless it has a negative effect on games.

2 words.... Blast Processing.

Well, i hope its a positive influence, especially since i ****ing forgot to drop (even cancel) my ks ($120-130) pledge and i got charged LOL...

I'm curious, what negative influence could it possibly have?

If it fails, the open *ware community in general will lose reputation in the eyes of casual users. And casual users is where the money is.

I cancelled my pledge because I was pissed at them offering the limited edition version.
"To collect one of these rare drops, stretch your donation to $140--the additional cost will cover the small production run."
Instead of making it more expensive and therefore limited, they should have just offered the $99 tier in two variants and let people choose whichever they wanted, so that it didn't have to be a "small production run". Assholes. (I still want them to succeed, of course.)

If it fails in what sense? The casual gamers already have enough access to Android to have formed an opinion on its reputation, I don't see how this could do any further damage, and it has the potential to do some good.

I wrote a reply, but then it disappeared. I'm also kinda drunk, and can't be bothered to type it again, but here's a screenshot I missed in my last post, where it shows how I can pick 4 controllers on my cellphone.

i dont' see how anyone can compete with the big dogs without bringing something new to the table.

besides, i'm satisfied with PS3, if you want to drag me away from them you have to have better games.

and if i wanted to play emulators on my tv, i'd just plug my computer into it.

I don't necessarily think they are even competing with the major consoles. All they want to do, IMO, is to carve a little "Neo Geo" niche... except they are luring people with "freemium" games. Who knows how they'll do? Getting some major developers onboard sure doesn't hurt.

It doesn't show 4 people crowded around a phone trying to play together though does it? Because that would be silly.
Google isn't a big dog?

google is a big dog, but they are new to the game. there are so many people who are already big xbox diehards, or playstation diehards, or nintendo diehards. sure there's plenty of people who just follow the greatest games, but generally speaking, except for nintendo which is a kids thing mainly, xbox and playstation have all the same games.

so the question is really this: are the games going to be better on ouya?

The Ouya will most likely fail (whether it fails to even be completed or it simply fails to get any serious traction behind it with regards to games remains to be seen). If it doesn't, though, it should be a fun little hackable box. Turn it into a media center or whatever you can think to do with it!