The OUYA is a console system designed around Android and the idea of playing games downloaded from the internet. It’s a popular concept, the Kickstarter funding effort raised over eight-million human dollars. Now, comes the hard part for the OUYA team; building the thing. The vast sums of extra money from the Kickstarter campaign should be enough to get the ball rolling, but can a small team really deliver on a product like this? Ars Technica has the story.
Ideas are cheap in the video game industry, even popular ideas. The real hard work goes into bending metal around those visions, and that’s where the OUYA team is now. Their Kickstarter found a lot of good will and some heavy support, but the rest is up to them.