You can put python (or rather, upgrade the existing python), ruby, haskell, &etc. on it. With great ease.
Also, you can play a hell of a lot of nice games, too. The free (in all meanings of the word) spirited community has constructed its own a-massing collection of titles:
Emulators? There are very, very few emulators that are not already running on the Pandora; - I have 27 different 'retired architectures' software archives on one of my Pandoras.
New-school games? Well, they're out there, and happening. The Pandora may not have an Android App Stores' worth of apps, yet, but most everything thats in the existing repo, is quality. There are some true gems .. just check the public repo top-10 list at repo.openpandora.org, to see what I mean.
Did I mention: 11 hours battery life, and it fits in my coat pocket? Oh, it has two nice little analog nubs, a workable keyboard, and a decent touchscreen.
The next generation Pandora might be an almighty beast worth looking at, but the Ouya, well .. it has some serious catching up to do.
That thing is $750, plus shipping. Every gaming system I can think of is cheaper than that, including decent desktop systems. Almost everything you describe can be achieved on a low end laptop, which has more utility, for half the price. Outside of "fitting in my pocket", I can't see any practical reason to own a gadget like that. Am I missing something?
Comparing a 440 Euro handheld device (arguably targeted mostly towards people interested in emulating bootleg roms) to a $99 console is really comparing apples to oranges.
http://openpandora.org/
This device is, really, amazing.
I have two. I will tell you whats so amazing about this GAMES machine: it has everything you need to build games, already onboard.
Both of my machines are set up with their own on-board development environments - full C/C++ compiler, and so on.
I have been able to port a metric tarball-tons' worth of games - and other - applications with the device itself and nothing else.
You can use things like LOAD81 (http://github.com/antirez/load81/) on the Pandora http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=LOAD81, and it really rocks.
You can put python (or rather, upgrade the existing python), ruby, haskell, &etc. on it. With great ease.
Also, you can play a hell of a lot of nice games, too. The free (in all meanings of the word) spirited community has constructed its own a-massing collection of titles:
http://repo.openpandora.org/
Emulators? There are very, very few emulators that are not already running on the Pandora; - I have 27 different 'retired architectures' software archives on one of my Pandoras.
New-school games? Well, they're out there, and happening. The Pandora may not have an Android App Stores' worth of apps, yet, but most everything thats in the existing repo, is quality. There are some true gems .. just check the public repo top-10 list at repo.openpandora.org, to see what I mean.
(EDIT: Actually, the Pandora can run Android just fine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHPxE9om3Hc)
Did I mention: 11 hours battery life, and it fits in my coat pocket? Oh, it has two nice little analog nubs, a workable keyboard, and a decent touchscreen.
The next generation Pandora might be an almighty beast worth looking at, but the Ouya, well .. it has some serious catching up to do.