My Take on Ouya
The Ouya, for those who don't know, was an idea that went up on Kickstarter , a website where you can look at various projects and decide to pledge money to help that project reach the light of day. This is a process called Crowd Funding. It's similar to regular investment funding, except instead of going through a bank or some rich people with some cash, you can get bits and pieces of funding from the general population. Ouya's popularity started really when they received a huge amount of funding through Kickstarter - more than they were asking for and at the time a record for any project on the site. What helped it get this far was a fairly rudimentary idea; let's make a very affordable gaming console with really affordable games. That, for me, is about where the idea fell apart. It's not that their goal is at all a bad one. It is a wonderful idea. But it doesn't work. We all want to be able to get a lot without paying a lot. It's all about getti...