I backed the OUYA in its first days with good hope, but during the kickstarter campaign more and more cracks started showing, now they've hit a point where it just seems to go from bad to worse, to name a few;
- No more free to play, only free to try, aka if you want your game to be free, OUYA still wants money.
- Mandatory CC details, but no parental options, or even visible prices in the store.. Apart from the fact alot of people simply dont like this idea, one cant help but think about the 'recent' hacks with Sony & Steam, and OUYA doesnt even carry the proper security licenses to deal with CC details, let alone force you to save them, also real fancy how they vaguely mentioned this a few days before sending out backer units.
- Shipping will take a few months, the people that shelled out more for limited edition and/or extra controllers are pushed to the end of the line, great stuff, especially because this also wasn't mentioned earlier (march would be when every backer would get theirs, now it looks like 40% still wont have theirs by the end of june.)
- There was an uproar about the controller when the dev version was sent out, they claimed they fixed it, exact same uproar has come from all the sites that reviewed a backer unit, OUYA claims they will fix it, apart from the fact i think its a downright lie, im not to pleased to find out they know of these issues, yet send me a limited backer exclusive console with those issues..
Overal, i was just super stoked to find an OUYA section on XDA, cant wait to flash some proper working firmware, either a spinoff of OUYA's or a new one, at least the device will be used to its potential now.
Im still happy i backed it btw, how else would they've been able to release it, but all of the above has left me with a nasty taste, the way things look now i wont be running the OUYA as-is for long, however i still have some hope for a decent bit of firmware to be available in June.