One month on, Ouya's Kickstarter funding wraps up
It's hard to believe we've only been talking about the Ouya console for a few weeks. Still, hard as it may be to believe, the Ouya Kickstarter only went live on July 10. The console made headlines when news of the creator's ambitious plans to upend console gaming spread. Within a few hours, the project reached its goal of $950,000 in funding. Withing a few days, the project had attracted millions of dollars in crowd-sourced funding.
Today, the Ouya Kickstarter project comes to a close. The total amount raised? A whopping $8,596,475. This astronomical sum comes from 63,416 individuals, each of whom put their own cash into the project. "We did it gang!" the company tweeted last night, before inviting people to continue following the Ouya adventure on http://Ouya.tv .
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Amazing that Ouya was able to raise over almost 9 times its goal of $950,000 on just KS, and was able to find so many services like Onlive, Vevo, etc, developers like Minecraft, SquareEnix, etc, gamers which are interested in Ouya.