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You are not the intended audience for the Ouya Kickstarter, because you don't want to create content. You only want to consume.

And that's a great shame, that you took a potential developers place in that order queue (the Oculus Rift suffers this same issue), a developer that is having to wait until retail release to get their hands on a platform they want to publish for.

Kickstarter != Amazon.

An audience of consumers, and bedroom-youtube-reviewers with a short attention span are passing (generally) negative judgement on device that was not meant for them.

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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.

> 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.

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

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.

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.

It's actually not true, because they had tiers for developers:

"Developer Special. A first-run OUYA (already rooted so you can just get going), EARLY SDK ACCESS, an extra controller, and we'll help you get started. We'll also help you promote your game for ONE YEAR, and your games will be marked with a FOUNDER EMBLEM."

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