VEVO music videos and a “last week of Kickstarter” special edition console and controller
We’re counting down: This is our last week on Kickstarter!
Until now, we have been all about games and gaming, but--as many of you have noted--OUYA can go far beyond that. Because it’s based on Android, it can support anything built on Android--the sky is the limit. It’s with that dramatic preamble that we say this:
We’re bringing the party back to the family room! OUYA is partnering with VEVO
– the world’s leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform.
Not only will VEVO and OUYA bring high definition music video programming back to the TV -- we’re turning control over to you. Access music videos from your favorite artists like JAY Z, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Kings of Leon, The Killers, Big K.R.I.T., Florence + The Machine, John Mayer and P!nk when you want them and where you want them: on your big, shiny television!
For OUYA, this means entertainment beyond gaming. Browse through the most-viewed music videos on the web, explore full video catalogs of top-selling artists, or venture into the realm of new staff picks, live concerts and original music programming. Getting ready to do some level grinding? Watch one of your favorite videos to get in the mood.
But enough from us, here’s the full scoop from VEVO:
At VEVO, our mission is to bring high quality music experiences to users wherever and whenever. We have always strived to embrace new platforms that developers, creative communities and consumers are excited about. OUYA is just that—it’s one of the most exciting new entertainment platforms we’ve seen and we think it’s a natural fit for VEVO’s premium music videos and original music programming.
This is why I am thrilled to tell you today that VEVO is committed to launch with OUYA when it comes to market in March 2013. Through this partnership, we will bring our rich catalogue of over 50,000 high definition music videos and new, original programming from more than 11,000 artists to OUYA’s groundbreaking new gaming console. We support and share OUYA’s vision that the future lies in being open and accessible for users looking for high quality entertainment experiences.
Our partnership with OUYA is grounded in our tireless effort to bring VEVO to every connected living room and home and we will continue to deliver our premium music video programming to the rest of our platform consisting of VEVO.com, mobile & tablet apps (including Android, iOS, Windows Phone), connected TVs like Xbox and partner sites such as AOL, CBS, Facebook, Viacom Media Networks, Yahoo! Music and YouTube.
Stay tuned for more news on our partnership with OUYA – and what it will look like for consumers - as we get closer to launch. We hope you are as excited as we are!
-Michael Cerda, SVP of Product and Technology, VEVO
We’re excited to bring the #1 music video platform to OUYA! Let’s start a world-wide dance party.
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In addition to the VEVO news - we have something else to share with you as we count down to next Wednesday:
Our Kickstarter crew is unique. You guys have been here since the beginning and we wanted to honor you by acknowledging one of your most frequent requests: a special limited edition console and controller available only during our last week of Kickstarter.
Behold the limited edition OUYA and controller! Yves Behar personally selected the color for this special console and controller, and it will only be available NOW, through the end of Kickstarter campaign. (Scroll down to view.)
To collect one of these rare drops, stretch your donation to $140--the additional cost will cover the small production run.
Also note, the buttons now officially read “O-U-Y-A”! (<--we heard you!)
-Julie
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Aug 9, 2012
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- Julie Uhrman 339 friends
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Pledge $10 or more
1770 backers
Join our wild ride. RESERVE YOUR USERNAME before the launch rush. Every little bit brings us one step closer to a new kind of console. The more we raise, the more we can accomplish. You'll get updates as we go on our journey.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $25 or more
1898 backers
Reserve your username, plus get a FOUNDER EMBLEM forever emblazoned next to your username.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $95 or more
1000 backers All gone!
GET AN OUYA: console and controller. Plus the rewards above. This is for early birds -- we can only offer a limited number at this price. (We have to ask you to add $20 for shipping outside the U.S.) Please add $30 if you want a second controller.
Estimated delivery: Mar 2013Pledge $99 or more
46124 backers Limited (33876 of 80000 left)
GET AN OUYA: console and controller. Guarantee we will have one available for you, before it gets to stores. Plus the rewards above. We're figuring out how many we can make! (We have to ask you to add $20 for shipping outside the U.S.) Please add $30 if you want a second controller.
Estimated delivery: Mar 2013Pledge $140 or more
7755 backers
Limited Edition Backer Exclusive -- Only available for our LAST week of Kickstarter. Let everyone know you are an early backer of OUYA. Get our exclusive, limited edition rich BROWN BRUSHED METAL FINISH OUYA. It’s a work of art! You’ll also get the earlier rewards. (We have to ask you to add $20 for shipping outside the U.S.) Please add $30 if you want a second controller.
Estimated delivery: Mar 2013Pledge $225 or more
2500 backers All gone!
Kickstarter exclusive. Reserve an OUYA plus two controllers -- each with your username ETCHED into it, so they're uniquely yours. (Same shipping costs, and you also get to reserve your username and get a founder emblem.)
Estimated delivery: Mar 2013Pledge $699 or more
600 backers All gone!
Developer Special. A first-run OUYA (already rooted so you can just get going), EARLY SDK ACCESS, an extra controller, and we'll help you get started. We'll also help you promote your game for ONE YEAR, and your games will be marked with a FOUNDER EMBLEM.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $1,337 or more
226 backers Limited (174 of 400 left)
Elite Developer Special. You receive the Developer Special plus the email equivalent of a hotline into OUYA—a closely guarded email address that gives you direct access to our team and priority handling. But wait, there’s more: YOU AND A FRIEND ARE INVITED TO THE OUYA LAUNCH PARTY in Los Angeles. Warm up those biceps because you’ll be lifting a serious gift bag packed with goodies we’re keeping secret until the party.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $5,000 or more
4 backers Limited (26 of 30 left)
For the designer's designer. WE’LL PUT YOU UP IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR A DAY WITH YVES BEHAR. Hang with Yves and his team at fuseproject, discuss the creation and development of OUYA (of course we'll give you one when they're ready), and spend time within a community of extraordinary product designers.
Estimated delivery: Jan 2013Pledge $10,000 or more
12 backers Limited (8 of 20 left)
The Angel List. The entire first production run of consoles will have YOUR USERNAME and BACKER NUMBER ENGRAVED INTO IT (and of course you'll get one). We’ll invite you and a friend to a private dinner before our launch party with our inner circle of game developers and designers. And, of course, we’ll love you forever.
Estimated delivery: Mar 2013
Comments
Creator Aaron on August 29, 2012
@Zachary So you want it to... not spell OUYA?
Creator Zachary on August 13, 2012
I don't know if it's too late. You may have begun production, but I'd ask that you switch the locations of the O and A buttons. I am accustomed to the PlayStation controller's button locations as well as those of the Xbox. This means having the Y button at the top, as you do, but also the O on the right and the A at the bottom. It just seems it would feel more natural to swap their locations.
Creator Keith Nguyen on August 9, 2012
I am so excited! I too went in at the $225 level and was wondering along with Anthony if we will be receiving the limited edition color?
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Creator Jeremy Holmes on August 8, 2012
I can't say it enough... THIS IS FKING AWESOME!!!!
Creator Anthony Chapman on August 8, 2012
I bought the $225 one with the username etched into the controllers. Is it possible to also get in teh limited edition color? I really like that brown and black look.
Creator Tom Greaux on August 8, 2012
I plan on getting the limited edition OUYA as a collectors item. I'll buy a normal one to play with once they come out. What I want to know as a collector is if the limited edition OUYA has anything on it to signify that its a backer only limited edition? Will it have a limited production number stamped on the bottom? Is there anyway to tell exactly how rare it is besides the Brown Aluminum casing? Because there are going to be hundreds of casings you can easily swap out after the console is released. If there is nothing other than the brown casing to show that its special, I would rather wait til it comes out and just swap out brown case on it myself for half the cost. Not to be a jerk, but I dont wanna spend 170$ on a limited edition for nothing.
Creator Ancient on August 8, 2012
Can someone answer me a short question?
If I add 30$ for a second controller, is it colored too?
Creator Jared? on August 8, 2012
Just pledged my first Kickstarter pledge!
Love the regular and limited edition finishes! The brushed metal finishes look beautiful and very fingerprint smudge resistant!
Creator EvanTheGamer on August 8, 2012
Err...never mind about that. I should have read the FAQ first.
Creator EvanTheGamer on August 8, 2012
To everyone who thinks they'll be getting the Limited Edition if you pledge $140 or higher...well, I honestly don't think that's the case or else the Limited Edition wouldn't be an LE, would it? It's either get that one and that one alone, or buy that one and the $225(silver) one. Can't have it both ways.
I'm getting the Limited Edition one and I'm happy with that decision.
Creator EvanTheGamer on August 8, 2012
Just thought of something...why not make the Limited Edition OUYA "green", as in...Android Green? That would have been so much better and more badass, as well! After all, an Android OS is ran on it for crying out loud! lol
Ah well...way it goes.
Creator Joel on August 7, 2012
agree with Geoff Maddox, IR port would be great to have so a controller is not necessary when making use of the media features (like XBMC). MORE USB PORTS would also be great
Creator Brandon Riggs on August 7, 2012
My only suggestion would be to make it truly limited by stamping it with a number (i.e. ## of 10000 for instance). I think I prefer the silver to the brown, but I'd still get the limited if it was stamped.
Creator christian zenzano on August 7, 2012
it woudl be niec to see teh limited edition also boast a faster GPU, 8Core- Tegra -4. With the partnership with Nvidia I think this would be possible.
Creator Geoff Maddox on August 7, 2012
Will second the comment about an IR port. Having the ability to use remotes to control it will cement the Ouya as an affordable media console for me, and many others, I would guess (when explained that as a possible use, it got a few people on board with the idea of Ouya). Definitely should have either built-in IR or a strategy (USB add-on, for example) that will bring it there.
Creator Kozanator on August 7, 2012
I'm loving this project but I hope you include an IR port on the front, so I can control it with the rest of my entertainment system for the days I'm just listening/watching media.
Also... I was thinking about the letters on the controller. Shouldn't it be: "O" left, "U" top, "Y" right, "A" bottom. That just seems to make more logical sense due to that's the order you would code when making borders and such in HTML. Also, isn't it common to start reading from the left and then go clockwise from there?
Creator Vaughan Braddon on August 7, 2012
Have to agree with Virus, I'd also prefer the green and red, it just makes more sense. The two yellows also don't stand out enough from each other, could be a problem when displaying tutorials on screen which inevitably use colours as well as symbols to tell you which button to press.
Creator ViRUS from MARS on August 7, 2012
Don't understand why you don't use the same colour layout as the Xbox gamepad. Having red as your primary action button seems a little odd. Green for forward and red for back.
Creator Carlos on August 7, 2012
The new color should have been definitely for everyone backing the project. Good job on making us feel less special, guys.
Creator Christopher OCallahan on August 7, 2012
Perhaps the new color should have been a stretch goal rather than a $50 add on? Catching up on updates and feeling worse and worse about backing it.
Creator Dirkovic on August 6, 2012
I guess if you don't like the button arrangement you could just open the controller and easily rearrange the buttons in any desired sequence. It just might get confusing when you are asked to press a certain button though,
Creator Arnold_dajar on August 6, 2012
My biggest issue is that this doesn't even read OUYA, and if it did the button positions would still make sense. Heres what they need to do.
Left button O. Top button U. Right button Y. Confirm button A.
And make the right button red, and the top button yellow. the bottom, and left button could be either green or blue
Last i checked people don't read bottom-up. I read left to right, and fixing this would 1) make the controller actually more appealing, and 2) Easier to introduce among the majority of casual gamers, and hardcore gamers.
Creator Joe R. on August 6, 2012
Umm... why is the Green color finish not the limited edition?
Creator William on August 6, 2012
I like the current design.
A on the 3 o'clock position makes sense. That's where A is on Nintendo controllers.
And O at the 6 o'clock position, where X is on PS3 controllers, is good too. Coz they are both used for confirmations.
So most people should be able to get used to this layout pretty quickly.
P.S. Red means "happy, lucky, prosperous" for Chinese people. I have no problem with the O being in red at all. :D
Creator KageNoOni on August 5, 2012
I don't know about most of those colors on ouyadb. I do like the idea of customizing the appearance, but bright flashy colors like that really doesn't look all that great. I think a more dimmed set of colors would look better.
Creator David Varon on August 4, 2012
If you pledge $225 you can actually get the limited edition too. You just have to specify which one you want in a survey at the end of the drive they send out.
Creator The Woz on August 4, 2012
This is a pretty sweet deal, i think i may upgrade my pledge :) Oh and the Ouya should come in a bunch of colors i think it'd look sweet some white black etc. I know ouyadb did a thing on colors. They have like all the colors, black white green red blue etc. its here
http://ouyadb.com/2012/08/04/ouya-in-color/
Creator RikanMel on August 4, 2012
I was sold with the second controller and the etched username ($225) until I saw this L.E. color. I guess I'll pass the etched username and go for the L.E. color. I hope they give an options on the survey to do the etched controls, If they do that I'll go with that too.
Creator Tom Greaux on August 4, 2012
With all the different casings that are going to be available for the OUYA after it's released, will the "Limited Edition" OUYA have a limited batch number stamped on it? Will it have anything to signify that it's a limited edition besides the brown casing?
Creator Derrick Klabouch on August 4, 2012
@ Thomas I believe either of them. You specify in the survey.
Creator Thomas Yamamoto on August 4, 2012
Hello everyone, I don't know if anyone asked yet but...
what color will the etched ($225) versions be.
Will they have a special color as well?
Thanx.
Creator Steffan Williams on August 3, 2012
I'm with everyone else on this... the button you press to accept / move forward in a menu and so forth should *not* be red. There's no harm in using the Xbox controller colour positions (since you're using the same colours), as they make a lot of sense.
Creator Reggie Clark on August 3, 2012
I need a kickstarter GREEN version
Creator Dan George on August 3, 2012
@Josh Burkhead: Watch out - we got a badass over here.
Creator Jac on August 3, 2012
I was expecting the O on top, so it would read like this:
O
U Y
A
But really, just does not matter. I would agree that it would be nice if the main button to accept was green, and decline was red.
Creator DLARREMO on August 3, 2012
Please tell me that VEVO will not insist on restricting media capabilities of the console as part of their "partnership".
Creator jedix on August 3, 2012
+1 for O on the 9 clock position.
Creator Johniel Marrero on August 3, 2012
Is it just me or does the lettering feel off? I love that they are using O-U-Y-A, but I was expecting one of these two layouts: O where U is currently, U where the Y is, Y where the O is and A is located correctly. The other was O > U, U > Y, Y > A and A > O. Both of these seem more natural to me when viewing the controller. Also a little concerned about the seam location of where the black and silver area meet, but just a little.
Creator Maddawg on August 3, 2012
And, just a note: online VEVO does not allow Europeans to connect on their webpage,,, so would the ouya connection be available in the EU (NL)???
Creator Maddawg on August 3, 2012
+1 for O on the 9ó clock position. Also: I am backing for 225 or more but prefer the new brown finish. Will there be a choice in color?
Creator Robert on August 3, 2012
also a fan of the buttons starting at the 9 or 12 o`clock position (prefferably 12 in my opinion but still)