Ouya, a $99 Android-based console by Yves Behar, seems to be a reality.
For those unfamiliar with Yves Behar, he's the man behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which designed innovative, low costing laptops for children around the globe. The Ouya seeks to bring cost effective technology to the masses again, but this time with gaming.
The Ouya is also designed to be entirely free to play and hackable by users. Any publisher can publish games for it, and all games will be free. Additionally, every Ouya will ship with a dev kit, making it easily hackable and modifiable.
Behar is also not the only one behind this. Former VP of game publishing for Microsoft, Ed Fries, is also involved, most notable for his acquisitions of key studios such as Rare, Bungie, and Ensemble. Amol Sarva, who founded Virgin Mobile USA and created the Peek, will be there as well. The CEO at Ouya is also former IGN executive Julie Uhrman.
Not much information has been revealed, such as specs or what version of Android it'll be using, but stay tuned in the future for more updates.
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