while this is certainly true, if you would limit kickstarter-orders to serious developers only, many of the projects would reach far smaller funding amounts or might even fail their funding targets. In the end this is a device for consumers and it needs to create hype to be successfull, so letting anyone in on the action is the only way to go.

> Kickstarter != Amazon.

Kickstarter != Pre-order, even for devs

Giving the money on Kickstarter is contributing to their development, giving them a gift in the hopes of helping them succeed. If they wanted only devs to get the device early, then they should have setup pre-orders somewhere else.

No, he didn't. There was over 80,000 units available at the $99 tier alone (they only sold ~34,000). The devices are hardly "developers only", and pretending they are will be a sure way to ensure that consumers will never purchase them.

Ouya sold it as a consumer ready device, not a developer preview. The fault is on them to deliver on their promises or face backlash.

That really doesn't apply to this situation, as their statement was that it wasn't worth the $99 for consumers in a comment section for an article stating that the console is going on sale for consumers.

It also isn't particularly relevant as there was a level that did not sell out at $99 that included an Ouya console, so it's not as if developers were limited by her or him buying it.

So tell me, if there are so many developers out of the thirty thousand kickstarted ouyas why are there 150 apps total and almost no ouya-optimized games, let alone exclusives? Plenty of units have been in people's hands, and you could have developed on an android emulator from the day the kickstarter was announced.

Bullshit. Literally everything you wrote is wrong (with the exception of Kickstarter != Amazon). And also judgemental in an extremely assholey condescending way.