Ouya
Ouya ( [u ː ˌ jə ] stylized as " OUYA " ) is a gaming console that is based on the open source software technology of Android. Julie Uhrman founder of the Project life. She brought the designer Yves Béhar with one to work with him on the design of the project, and Muffi Ghadiali as a product manager, to compile the engineering team for the hardware. The console was released on March 28, 2013. The launch was on June 25, 2013.
History
As a concept for a new stationary video game console Ouya was presented on 2 July 2012. Directed by Julie Uhrman, the managing director of the company OUYA, Inc., launched on 10 July, a Kickstarter campaign over 950,000 U.S. dollars to continue to fund the project and better the general interest in such a console before a start in the production to assess. Uhrman stated that at this time already have a working prototype of the user interface and software was still in development. OUYA, Inc. announced plans to make its own Ouya Store for apps and games available. The prototype runs on Android 4.0, but the final version will be shipped with Android 4.1.
The funding request quickly proved successful. In eight hours, until the funding target the threshold of one million U.S. dollars was achieved and in 8:22 hours finally exceeded. On 9 August 2012, the financing phase was completed with 8,596,474 U.S. dollars, stood at 904 % of the original target funding goal. In the course of the campaign, the console according to the information kickstarter so that multiple funding records. Accordingly, the Ouya the highest funding in the project division games and after Pebble Watch the second highest successful project financing of the entire website was. In addition, it was at the Ouya to the fastest project that could exceed the threshold of one million U.S. dollars in cash pledges, with Ouya only the eighth project in the history of Kickstarter was that could reach this threshold. 2.59 million U.S. dollars within 24 hours meant still the record for the best ever launch, within the first 24 hours there was a sponsor every 5.59 seconds. The record for the fastest Kickstarter funding with more than a million dollars was on March 6, 2013 by the RPG project Torment: set Tides of Numenera.
Even during the financing stage, the manufacturer was able to win renowned supporters. July 19, 2012, Robert Bowling, former Creative Strategist at Infinity Ward announced in a blog post and an update on the Ouya kickstarter page that his new studio Robotoki 'll be the first developer of an exclusive game for the Ouya. In the game, there should be an episodic prequel to the upcoming game Robotokis human element.
July 31, 2012, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy III will be available as a boot title for Ouya.
On August 7, 2012, the developers of XBMC announced a partnership with Ouya to support XBMC on Ouya.
August 8, 2012 it was announced that Bandai Namco negotiating about bringing your own games on the system. On the same day it was announced also that Plex Media Center will also be represented at Ouya.
The developer consoles were shipped on the 28th December 2012. For developers who had not participated in the Kickstarter campaign, there was the opportunity to compete with a development project from 10 December. One of the devices were given away among the senders daily.
Hardware
Specifications:
- Inner life Nvidia Tegra 3 SoC Quad -core ARM Cortex- A9 CPU
- Nvidia ULP GeForce GPU
- HDMI connection to TV sets, support for 1080p
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n
- Bluetooth LE 4.0
- A USB 2.0 port
- Wireless controller with two analog sticks, d -pad, eight action buttons, a system key and touchpad
Features
Ouya will feature a Ouya Store to offer applications and games that have been created exclusively for the Ouya platform. Ouya will include from the beginning the TwitchTV application and provide access to the OnLive video game streaming service. The physical dimensions of the Ouya console to match those of a Rubik's cube.
Trivia
Ouya is a vulgar insult in the Bantu language Swahili. This was the developers in the naming unaware.