Ouya gaming console, making $950k in less than 12 hours

Ouya gaming console, making $950k in less than 12 hours

Nowadays, games might have been a secondary need for people. It is proven from the fact that companies are offering products that supports for gaming or even specialized for doing that and enthusiasm from the market on the products. One of them is Ouya gaming console from Yves Behar, who is considered world’s 7 most important people in design.

The Ouya is a game console that is based on Android. Surprisingly, the sale of gaming console is able to reach its lofty funding goal of $950,000 on Kickstarter in a surprisingly short time, less than 12 hours. As we know, the Ouya is offered at $99 for its pack which includes a Tegra 3 CPU, 8 GB of storage capacity and 802.11n WiFi, as well as Bluetooth 4.0. In addition, there are a USB 2.0 port and an SD card slot. The 1000 early adopters got a price cut of $4 that it became $95 – the buyers also get a single controller with a touch screen for the price with a cut, like the 1000-excluded early buyers.

Such a great achievement might be thanks in parts to, the most notable from the system, its state of being extremely friendly to developers. The system offers open hardware and software with a push for free-to-play content. Now, the game console has been only 5,000 units left with the price of $99, excluding the 1000 units.

This situation seems to reflect that such business model, the traditional one, for gaming consoles got rocked. Ouya gaming consoles listed a fast sale as it was confirmed by Kickstarter that the system, Ouya, achieved the biggest first day ever for one of its projects. With this, it is just the eighth project ever to break the million-dollar mark, making it equal to Double Fine’s upcoming adventure game, as well as the Pebble smartwatch.

Tags: Ouya gaming console, Yves Behar, Android, Kickstarter, Double Fine, Pebble smartwatch.