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I'm surprised they're not also pursuing media center features, either baked-in or through third parties. Netflix clearly wants to live on every box in the universe, and the open-ish stack lends itself well to Flex, XMBC, etc. It increases the value prop while the game library is still being built up (how many people bought a PS3 because it doubled as a Blu-Ray?)

Also: how the heck is Ouya pronounced? Feels a little awkward to say, like the first year of the Wii. It's important that people are able to talk (and brag!) about your product.




This is a good point. Also since it's running Android, I'd expect it to be fully compatible with the market place apps. Which means, I can run a webserver from this box if I care. Or more sanely, I could connect to my DLNA enabled media server and stream content from there (assuming this thing is going to have WiFi/Ethernet which I'm sure it will).


> Also: how the heck is Ouya pronounced?

From the FAQ:

OOO-yah. Apparently it doesn't have the most pleasant meaning in Swahili.


Anyone know what the meaning is? I'm curious to know. They don't say, Google Translate doesn't have a clue, and a quick Google didn't turn up anything...


I think its 4 symbols to use for button identification.




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