this would bring me back full time to vendetta
to beable to play this via a console in your living room
I can see this taking vendetta to a whole new level

ANDROID gaming console OUYA

With all the similar devices from major companies being announced, the Ouya is looking less and less relevant as a specific platform to target (not that it was hugely relevant in the first place.) It now only holds a small slice of the pie.

We've been in communication with them for awhile. I told them to send us some hardware and we would take a look at it. My issue is not so much with the OUYA device itself, but rather the time to implement their payment API and so on. Maintaining all these different mechanisms and testing for changes as devices get updated is a non-trivial time expense for us, and I'm not excited about adding a lot more onto that particular plate, especially if the market share and cost/benefit is unclear.

But, we'll check it out whenever they send it. We're open to the prospect, just cautious.

Well, the device is going to be open by default and it's just Android after all. . Perhaps implement enough so that the controls work and users can side-load it? Hopefully it does out of the box.

When mine shows up i'll test it.

Ye i thought it would just use the play store like most other android devises?

Surely all the payments etc just go through play? Also check out the game stick on kickstarter, has been pulled for now due to illegally showing a game without permission but a load of android consoles coming out! The future of gaming is here folks!

Android gets stepped on a lot between Google, the device manufacturer, and the carrier. That's why you see apps that work fine on many phones but crop up with issues on others - despite all being Android. Maybe OUYA won't modify it much - could get lucky.

Ye but the hardware differs from phone to phone, if something like the ouya took off the that gives developers a single platform to focus on... I say this of course but we all know that this time next year there will be a million and one android consoles and the market will be just as fragmented as it is with phones :-(

OUYA has their own store and billing/monetization mechanics, it doesn't use the Play Store (nor would Google ever approve it for the Play Store in a million years). And while the system is sort of "open", if you want to actually have your game listed in their store thing, it has to be approved by OUYA. So I suspect someone could access the device in a kind of dev-mode and sideload our existing APK. But that's not the same as being "on the device" in a way that has meaning to improving our market share and revenues. Or really being convenient for anyone who bought the thing and wants to play our game on it.

FYI that the above is what I've gleaned from public sources. None of this is secret stuff between us an OUYA (nor have they really told me anything at all, beyond "we'll try and ship you a device").