Ouya is real

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It's been a while since we heard anything about Ouya, the Android-powered open source home game console that became a major Kickstarter success earlier this year. Now, Ouya founder Julie Uhrman says the system is done with the initial design phase and is moving on to final development before mass production.
The first development run of printed circuit boards for the system fit on a small wafer about half the size of a can of coke, as seen above. With these in hand, Uhrman says the team is moving on to the Engineering Verification Testing phase, which involves fine-tuning the software and hardware performance and weeding out any remaining issues before large-scale production can begin. The team has also used the design time to upgrade the underlying OS for Ouya to the latest version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, though it's unclear how that upgrade will affect the system's customized living room TV interface.
Alpha developer kits are still on target to be delivered in December, but the Ouya team has laid out some basic guidelines for developers to start working on their Ouya games now ahead of that official release. To get an idea of the system's power, developers are advised to test their games on any Android tablet with a TEGRA 3 graphics chip and to plan to output full-screen in at least 720p resolution, without any Android interface elements taking up part of the screen.
Elsewhere in the developers' note, the team mention that Ouya will only be able to run one game or app at a time (so background multitasking is out). The touchpad on the controller will only be able to register a single touch point, unlike most other Android devices. Ouya consoles will also be shipping with a "soft touch" keyboard for text input, in addition to the primary handheld controller.




SOURCE : Ouya is real, and here’s the printed circuit board to prove it | Ars Technica
 
Nice..if they can get some talented third party developer to produce some old school RPGs, platformer which will be easy on the hardware graphically but fun to play with New Age features like - Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op, Online Leaderboard, Achievement - they got a Winner
 
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