[Ouya General] rainabba:
Because this device is a waste of money. I have to say "told you so" here (though I doubt anyone here actually heard me say it) because this is exactly what I said would happen. The Ouya is pointless because the majority of people interested in this product likely already have other Android devices that are just as, if not more capable.

The forums are going to be more dead than the sales because the people who can/would hack such a device, can spend their time being far more productive on modern phones/tablets that do more than the Ouya and are at least comparable in power.

I think Ouya should admit their flawed logic and do something for the community that funded them on Kickstarter. I'm not one and have no personal stake but I do feel they took advantage of the Android community.

If you disagree with me, you're welcome to your opinion, but the facts can't be ignored.

Let the flaming begin if it must.

UPDATE:

I almost wish I had time for a proper reply, but I have better things to do so I'll keep it short. All the back-peddling about how you "didn't buy the Ouya gaming console for gaming but for use as an HTPC" is just too much. So you people are telling me that you spent $100 on a crippled, locked-down, HTPC without a proper remote but instead a wimpy game controller when you could have spent $100 on a Vizio-CoStar which has HDMI pass-through, IR-Blaster and a proper GTV Media remote?!

Seriously?

Out of the box, the Co-Star shows up the Ouya in EVERY way (except XBMC as of 2014-02-10 it seems) as an HTPC AND can be used for gaming. Since it comes with the Play Store (Ouya doesn't) and supports all the most common media apps, it doesn't require any hacking AND can still play your favorite games. If you take 5 minutes to root it (yes, it's rootable), then you could pair up a Sixaxis or Wii controller (both of which I have laying around as many of you likely do) an you get a better controller than what Ouya provides.

So please tell me again how you purchased the Ouya for use as an HTPC and your $100 was well spent. While you provide more silly, defensive posts attempting to do so, I'll be USING my device and not worrying about how I'll overcome the limitations of the device I invested in so that I can do some basic task like listening to music from All Access or watching Netflix :)

Anyone want to venture a guess at why this post is easily the 2nd most active for this forum?! *roll eyes*

UPDATE 20140115:

Still in denial guys? OUYA Founding Team Member and VP of Product Development Departs

I'm still batting 1000 when it comes to calling successes and failures. This and the stats behind it prove what I've been saying from day one; DOA because it has no value (to people with some sense anyway, there's always that 10% as we say in the Corp).

They say "OUYA is an ever changing business". I don't disagree, death and failure do represent change. The real story though:

Go ahead and tell me one more time why I'm wrong since people are still keeping this thread active in their attempts to convince themselves I'm not.

For the record, 7 months after I posted this and these forums still have only 7,624 posts. I was trying to find a cheap, unpopular phone to compare to (since pretty much anything will meet or beet the Ouya in any number of way), but nothing is close enough to even make it worth the mention.