Hope you didn't scoff at the Ouya like it'd be some type of fad. Because guess who's rolling in the dough now?
The Ouya went way over their intended goal of $950,000 in nine hours and today have around $3,960,040 with 27 days left until their program ends. They're completely sold out of the $90 pledge offering an Ouya system along with the $699 pledge to receive a Softwear Development Kit and have a game promoted with a "Founder Emblem."
But this is still the start of the development process for a console that has no games, tons of support and enough money to start the process rather than run smoothly. The dual-headed beast of Gizmodo/Kotaku are quick to point out that while it's great to have a new console showing up, it hasn't been the first time:
"That's why only a handful of outfits, at least in the post-1983 era, have ever actually managed to do it. For every Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft console that sells tens of millions there's an Atari, Philips, Amiga or even Sega machine that hits the market, bombs and then almost (or in many cases actually manages) to drag an entire company down with it.
Assuming, that is, the console even makes it to market in the first place."
We hope the Ouya won't go the way fo the 3DO, but it's still so early that who knows what else could pop up for the Android-powered console.
