I hate to burst everybody’s bubble, but the Ouya isn't going to be what anyone thinks it’s going to be. I’m sorry, I know everybody is super excited about it, but it’s just one of those things where like... they did this list of “tell us which games you want on this,” and I think Meat Boy was #6 and Binding of Isaac was #12. So they contacted us and said “this is high on our list. We really want this. Can you guys port it?”, and Tommy was like “Meat Boy is not going to run on this. Meat Boy is not going to run on Android.”
In order for that to happen it would take a @#$%load of work and time, and I think, what… only 36,000 people are going to be owning them? That’s not going to make us any money. It’s not going be worth it. There’s really simple math there that proves that it’ll be very hard, at least you know early in its life cycle, to make any money off of the Ouya.
And it’s also not as easy as everybody thinks to just “oh, you want to make a game for the Ouya? Oh here, click the port button, and it ports to the Ouya.” You’re still having to redevelop something for an Android phone. If it was easy as Steam, where I could just take my Steam versions of Gish and SMB and whatever else and just say “here you go it’s a PC, so put it on there,” [that would be one thing]. But it’s not like that. You have to re-port the game. That costs money, that takes a @#$%load of time, and when you’re doing something like that you need to see if it’s worth it financially. And the answer is no.
If it ends up doing well, it could get a following and people could start developing stuff for it and everything else like that, but, I would say don’t get too excited. OnLive was actually really awesome, and that didn’t succeed. I feel like they had a @#$%load of funding and a lot of people knew about it, and that didn't work, so how the hell is this system [Ouya] gonna work when it’s not even half the idea? If anything it will get people to learn that you can throw a lot of money at something, and it won’t make it good.
You know, Kinect... You should just look at that and see.
