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better - or better because it's cheaper?
I currently have a EEEbox running my XBMC, but I'm thinking about using that box as my download client and getting a new XBMC host.
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I'm not so sure about that... When it comes out it will be really outdated, sold with no remote and worst for the ouya team, hackable a lot!
Right now there are dozens of android boxes, they just lack the support from developers + the android xbmc is still beta.
I think that Ouya will start the whole android media center thing and push it on the right tracks and when that happens every china company will make a dozen models for us to choose from with the open sourced ouya software already on, or easily installed in home.
You can see there are tons of interesting boxes already, you can even put a 3,5" harddrive in some (I would personally love that part!) others have really cool remotes etc. Ouya will be big for gaming, but not for media centers. IMHO
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Idk tegra 3 is a beast for movie playback and it does have a controller that will function fine as a remote.Remember this is only 99$. I don't know if you remember the old xbox days, but what made it so great was that everything automatically worked. There was no keymap mapping necessary, or event ghost. Launching other homebrew apps was really easy and there was a huge software collection to choose from.I think Ouya will bring that feeling back with a large userbase and high developer interest. Assuming there business doesn't crash and burn before Ouya sees the light of day. Having a open console is risky business but i think the market is right for it. People are ok with buying digitally distributed software. It will be more convenient to pay 4.99$ for an app or game then figuring out how to pirate the software. I would hope anyways.
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The Ouya is a few months away,.....I'm very tempted to pre-order one since it will be designed to run XBMC.
and it's $99
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Throw in a remote for Ouya or at least the capability to use a universal IR remote with it and I am sold.