Ask HN: Which game console will be the easiest to develop for?

Mobile consoles like PSP(\s*)? and Nintendo .?DS.? are loosing quickly market share to AppStore-based devices (from apple, google, etc...) in mobile or tablet form.

I would bet for firefoxOS on the mobile/tablet market (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/)- just because "low-end" devices will grab a lot of market share in "developing" countries and users with their first smartphone (think about growth).

For living room & sofa consoles... the hardest part is not programming, but publishing. Try the one with more "indie" games.

Depends what languages you know etc.

Xbox has XNA, which is OK.

Ouya has many Android game libraries, amongst others: libGDX.

Or you could count Steambox as a console, and develop in whatever you want (to a certain degree).

I spent some time playing with kinect sdk and was surprised to see how mature it looked. Easiness totally depends on what you are trying to achieve.