Ouya



"The revolution will be televised."

The Ouya is an Android-based microconsole, famous for being financed by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, and for crashing E3's parking lot on a guerrilla marketing campaign.

It became quite controversial, however, for a flawed launch: many backers did not receive their units in advance, early controllers had issues with lag (since patched) and buttons getting stuck (requires a very simple hardware mod), poor wireless performance (the fix can be a setting on your router), and some games had performance issues for not being properly optimized for the Tegra 3 chip.

On the other hand, as it's dead-easy to port from Android (in fact you can just install most Android .apks without modding), it quickly amassed a library of hundred of titles — mostly mobile games, but also media players and emulators for several classic systems (most up to PS1 run well, but N64 is very hit-and-miss). For a $99 machine, it was not a terrible deal. As a gaming competitor to Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony they failed. TowerFall, the Ouya's most popular game at the time, had only sold 7,000 copies.