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The more I see people talk about this, the more it feels like they're treating this thing like an actual system.

Not only does the OUYA do nothing new, it's attaching new market products and ideas to old market hardware. The idea of having a console to play games in your living room is probably approaching its last couple generations. It's greatest demise being that you needed three different big consoles to play all the games available. Imagine only being able to watch Star Wars movies on one kind of DVD player, and James Bond movies on another. The last thing this market needs is yet another box to play its games on.

Ideas like the Steam, and other networked application stores that can distribute a gaming product to a variety of hardware and still have means to control piracy are the way of the future. The people I see playing old-school RPGs like doing it on the subway, waiting for the next stop, getting a few scenes of Chrono Trigger in. They don't focus their at-home attention on it. The same goes for many Android titles, which are in their nature time-wasters, while still providing some very interesting interpretations of game-play mechanics.

To be fair to the OUYA - it's a kickstarter. A bunch of people, who I'm guessing never put a console together before, because, you know, not that many people have, giving it a go. Talking about the OUYA as if its crippled because it won't get the market-share it needs to be an actual console misses the point. This is more like a science-experiment that was low-cost enough for enough people that it got the green-light. And for all intents and purposes, it would be fair to presume they're trying to succeed.

It seems the blinders got put on with all this talk about it being an actual console, which is somewhat unfair. It's like giving a third grader a failing grade on their science fair paper-mache volcano because the baking soda didn't sufficiently replicate the intricate properties of real lava.

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Project Update #17: OUYA Devs jam worldwide, CREATE 166 game prototypes in 10 days
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Not much longer to wait for your OUYA... and everything’s looking good. At OUYA HQ we’re starting to see games, games, games.

We shipped our developer consoles on time, so developers could get developing -- and our software package to make games has already been downloaded by developers 22,000 times.

A couple weeks ago, with our friends at Kill Screen, we launched a 10-day “game jam” called CREATE that challenged teams to make game prototypes for OUYA. We’re writing to all of you today so we can share the 166 entries. You can check them all out here.

If you find one you like, let your friends know. Sharing your favorites will help developers win recognition, prizes and get them one step closer to finishing their OUYA game.

We’ve selected a crack team of industry pros to pick the winners, like Phil Fish of Fez, Felicia Day of The Guild, and more. They'll choose from a variety of compelling game prototypes. We're seeing dungeon crawlers, action RPGs, brawlers, 4-player shooters, TCGs, platformers, word games, puzzlers and some other cool stuff ya just can’t put in a category.

Dev teams hail from all over the world – from France to Canada, Germany to New Zealand, U.S.A. to South Africa and more! Whoa. We will announce winners in a couple of weeks.

If this is what OUYA developers can do in 10 days, imagine what they can do once OUYA is out in the wild...

Taking it one day at a time,
Julie