Ouya, the draft Android-powered home videogame appurtenance , surpassed its $950,000 appropriation objective inside of 8 hours of the launch of its Kickstarter promotion on Tuesday.
Now in its second day, the Ouya plan has warranted $2.9 million , creation it the third greatest Kickstarter ever with 28 days remaining.
The stream Kickstarter record hilt is the Pebble e-paper quartz watch , that netted over $10 million in funds. Second place, at $3.3 million, is , the point-and-click baffle diversion that launched the stream gaming Kickstarter disturb in February.
Ouya's (pronounced " ooh -yah") author says that it will broach giveaway and low-cost Android-based games in to living bedrooms for $99. It expects to liner the consoles starting in Mar 2013.
As of press time, about 23,400 backers had donated to Ouya's Kickstarter, pledging as small as $10 or as ample as $10,000 for assorted rewards. But the immeasurable most of backers, 20,900 of them, have affianced at the $95 or $99 levels - the amount compulsory to buy a Ouya console. At $99 and powered by a quad-core Tegra processor, Ouya is a decent amount of diversion appurtenance at an impulse-buy price.
The unexpected liquid of urge has stirred the firm to enlarge the number of primary consoles to 80,000 , Ouya owner Julie Uhrman mentioned on Twitter.
The company's Kickstarter promotion has been edited to add these additional machines, as the original gift of 1,000 boxes sole out in minutes.
Uhrman has asked the open to offer recommendation concerning widen goals, or what could be offered if the Kickstarter promotion continues to grow. She moreover posted an online consult looking submit on what games customers wish to fool around on Ouya.
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