News: "OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console", according to OUYA.

Ouya controller (Photo credit: Saad Faruque)

Watch out PlayStation, Xbox and Wii! There is a new gaming machine coming at you and that is the OUYA (pronounced as OOO-yah). Surprisingly, it only costs $99 (P4,136.22 as of 08/01/12).

What is OUYA, anyway? "It's an Android-powered open gaming console designed by well-known industrial designer and philanthropist Yves Behar (he designed the One Laptop Per Child laptops)," as explains by Winda Benedetti of NBC News. "The 'open' part of that sentence means that while game developers must get permission from the companies behind the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii and pay for expensive development kits to make games for those machines, that won't be the case with Ouya."

As of today (August 1, 2012), the project has already accumulated $5,969,016 and still counting. "The pledges are amazing, considering its 30-day goal was $950,000," Mike Minotti of Venture Beat said. Those who have funded Ouya has a chance to get a reward depending on their pledge amount.


According to KickStarter, the following are the specifications of the aforementioned console:

• Tegra3 quad-core processor 
• 1GB RAM 
• 8GB of internal flash storage
• HDMI connection to the TV, with support for up to 1080p HD 
• WiFi 802.11 b/g/n 
• Bluetooth LE 4.0 
• USB 2.0 (one) 
• Wireless controller with standard controls (two analog sticks, d-pad, eight action buttons, a system button), a touchpad 
• Android 4.0
• ETHERNET! (Announced by Muffi 7/18)

Official launch of Ouya to the market will be on March 2013. For now, let's have a look on this video below on what Ouya has to offer for us:

Source: Ouya | Kickstarter