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Originally Posted by flatout
The kickstarter money was for much more then pre-orders. Their original projected goal had to include cost of the devices sure... but also R&D, development, salaries for all the employees and overhead. And I am sure they left a cushion as well... my point is after the goal amount all of those expenditures they factored in was just gravy after that. Not hard to figure out once you think of it and do the math.
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The R&D had pretty much already been done before the Kickstarter started. the Kickstarter "price" is exactly the same as the retail price. So aside from normal retail profits the only bonus they received was from backers who donated way above the $100 level.
It's not hard to figure out... lets look at the actual kickstarter numbers:
12 backers at $10,000
4 backers at $5,000
226 backers at $1,337
600 backers at $699
everything below this level is essentially at retail price.
now all of those levels come with a console + an extra controller so subtract $140 from the value of each one:
you end up with
$743,682
So their bonus was less than a million over what they would have made had they just gone straight retail. All things considered that's hardly what I would consider "gravy" when you take into account how much goes into developing a launching a console.
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Originally Posted by flatout
That is all good to say "potentially could offer"... my point is the same one you made just now (as of now it does not).
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If you haven't read the latest part of my review posted today, you should. Right now, today on the Ouya marketplace there is "ShadowGun" which is a 3rd person shooter similar to Gears of War, and there is also "Bard's Tale" which is an Action RPG similar to Fable... To me, those are the same kind of gaming experiences that you can get with a PS3 or Xbox 360. Honestly I was completely blown away with how much performance the Ouya actually has, and how many legit, fully thought-out games are already available. The only thing keeping the next Assassins Creed or Madden football off of the console is those publishers deciding whether or not to put in that effort to port their games, but from what I've seen so far the Ouya is certainly capable of supporting games like that. The only reason I say "potential" is because you haven't given me any indication as to how you define the "experiences [your] looking for".
Performance wise I'd place it squarely between the PS2 and PS3 generation... it's not as powerful as a PS3 or Xbox 360 but It's significantly more powerful than a PS2 or original Xbox, I'd even place it ahead of the Wii... probably comparable to a Wii U.