I know we've got a bit of a geek crowd around here so I was curious if anyone else ordered one off the Kickstarter campaign.
Personally I'm not terribly excited about the gaming aspect of the machine, as I have an unnatural hate for most mobile gaming, though it will be nice to load a bunch of old games, probably up to the PS1 generation onto it to play whenever and consolidate my consoles down a bit.
I'm more interested in the fact that XBMC is coming to the device. I've had a Roku2 since launch day, it's honestly one of the best devices I've ever bought for my TV, I have no regrets cutting the cord, but the limitations that services like HULU+ on the service like having to watch certain things only online with a computer irritates me making me have the mental argument that I should just go back to the Playon XBMC HTPC combo (downside is having a keyboard next to the couch ick.)
Then there's the fact that Roku just partnered with DirectTV and a bunch of other traditional providers which makes me a bit nervous for the future of the device.
So who has ordered one and what do you plan to do?
For us Luddites, what is an OUYA?
Sorry I meant to include a link and didn't.
http://www.slashgear.com/ouya-aims-to-rekindle-consoles-with-android-kickstarter-10237879/
Gives a pretty good rundown of the device. The short version is it's a small device for 99 dollars that has mobile phone type hardware, runs Android, and was designed by the guy who did most of the design work for Jawbones devices. The idea is that you have a customizable quiet console to play games or run pretty much whatever type of multimedia entertainment that you want.
Meh I can already run emulators on my N900 or PC...which can do all that other stuff as well...
I tired of the multiple device interfacing that I had to do with the HTPC through HDMI pretty quickly. Having to have a keyboard and mouse to deal with Windows or just navigate XBMC really turned me off to that, even using VNC to correct the inevitable screwup with XP gets old because I need to bring out the laptop every time something doesn't work. The Roku was a good middle ground but I had to give up the emulators on the TV. This seems to cover a good deal of my wants, single controller to interface and navigate with, XBMC, the emulators and never really needing to use a keyboard and mouse screw with the OS.
Or I could just be out a hundred bucks if it is implemented miserably.
You can get a controller with a keyboard to act as a keyboard and mouse substitute that's as compact as a TV remote. On Linux you can use a PS3 Sixaxis with the chat pad. That's what I do on my HTPC (which is just a regular Linux box, and also my home server).
