The creators behind the Ouya have announced that their game console will be released with Android Jelly Bean on board, instead of a version in the Ice Cream Sandwich series. Now the console is in the testing phase ended up, but a precise release date is still unknown.
Initially it was planned to Launch with Android 4.0, but even before the release is the version number jacked up to 4.1. This Jelly Bean version should provide better performance. Also the creators behind the Ouya announced that there will be a sdk available for developers. For makers of apps and games will also be a free Ouya console is available, that they in the beginning of next year. Incidentally, this is not the final version: do need even longer to be waited for.
The required hardware for the game console is now complete and the testing phase started. The creators have the first pcb’s ingested, and are working to maximize the performance of the Ouya software on this hardware to analyze and, where necessary, to improve. May be there is some improvements in the hardware design is applied, after which mass production can be started. The Ouya features a quad-core-Tegra 3 soc, 1GB of ram and 8GB of flash storage. Connections can be established via wi-fi, bluetooth 4.0, ethernet, usb and hdmi.
It is not yet entirely clear when the Ouya, which has a price tag of $ 99, should come on the market. Initially, it was spoken about a release in april next year, but the makers behind the console have in their last nieuwsupdate here no further details are revealed. A number of gamemakers has already committed with Ouya versions of their games to come.
