You better get some coffee, tea, beer, wine, liquor, milk and cookies or whatever for this one.

Long post about my year with the OUYA, it is not a review technically. More of an overall look at what I saw and things that happened, including Free the Games, time here on the forum, etc. SO it's a look at things from my side.

Does not include the nightmarish events of the past few days, don't have the desire or energy to even go into that stuff.

Here's the beginning:
I had to reflect on my year with the OUYA from the consumer side and developer side. The two definitely differ but it seems to circle around the same main point, expecting more in one aspect or another.

As you know, OUYA was a Kickstarter success story; do I know why others got in? Not really, except for one or two. But I didn’t get in just to be a developer or just to be a consumer. At the time I was thinking that this thing could change gaming. Not like Atari to NES or anything like that but to give an outlet for those tired of games that look like movies. Those who just want to play games and enjoy themselves without paying $60 for an incomplete game and then having to buy DLC after DLC. A place for the ones who used to rage against the machine until Microsoft finally broke and said “hey come in”.

Around 2009 or so, people were talking about Microsoft’s policies, etc. and that would have been the perfect time for this to come out. I even went as far as to design a box and later based it on the Android OS and pair it with a 250GB HD because I was expecting big games and not a ton of short mobile ports. Never played a game on my phone, too small and I don’t know how people do it. But also didn’t feel the “next gen” of gaming. I actually had a PS3, God of War 3, Final Fantasy 13, Star Ocean, Darksiders 2 and others. None of them were ever opened including the PS3; I even sold that PS3 unopened, about 6 months later…still have the games floating around my bedroom somewhere, Star Ocean is right next to me still polywrapped..
Even as long as it is, it feels rushed to me.

This is where the rest is located: http://www.destinationouya.com/news/...with-the-ouya/

Enjoy it, hate it, love it...there it is.

Until next time.