You have to admire anyone willing to butt heads with the big boys of technology. That is exactly what a new innovative gaming platform is trying to do, and they want to do it with your money using the crowd-funding source Kickstarter. Ouya sounds crazy, but maybe in a good way.
Ouya is offering a low-cost gaming platform that is completely transparent. It seems a little unorthodox, but if you think about it, not really. Once upon a time, a programmer had an idea to develop an operating system that would give people something to build on. Part of the problem with the big boys is they like monopolize. This programmer saw that happening with Microsoft and decided to try to level the playing field by creating the Linux kernel.