And by "we" I mean you. OUYA wouldn’t exist without you.
 
Just last summer, we shared an idea for a simple, beautiful, powerful game console that lets any developer publish a game for the TV. We were driven by our love for couch gaming. And when you (and the rest of our early supporters) rallied around us, you inspired us.
 
We got here together.
 
Today, we honor you. Today we start shipping our early backers their OUYAs. And at our unveiling event this evening, the first of you will get to see OUYA in the flesh (or, metal, as it were).
 
Thank you.
 
Thank you for your encouraging words, for your belief when doubters doubted, for your feedback and ideas, and for your trust. And, I have to personally thank the OUYA team for the sleepless nights and sacrifices they’ve made to make OUYA for you.
 
A couple things our team wants you to know when you get your OUYA:
 
    When you first boot it up, you’ll experience our first update This will either be super fast (seconds) or allow you to get a drink (minutes) based on your connection speed. Eventually, we want to do these updates in the background...
    You'll need a credit/debit card to download games. All games are still free to try. Your card will only be charged if you buy content you love. We do want valid payment information for everyone. This is to ensure that game developers can get paid when you love their game.
    OUYA supports up to four controllers (you can always get more at http://ouya.tv). And, because we support Bluetooth, you can pair other devices as well. We are testing now and will start publishing a list of devices soon.
 
This is only the beginning. Today begins an exclusive preview period as we gear up to launch in June. We'll continue to add features, refine the user interface, and keep building the software as we head toward our retail launch -- now announced for June 4.
 
We hope that you, our founding backers, continue to shape OUYA as we prepare to launch to the masses. Your feedback, to date, has been incredibly helpful and as you know, we’ve acted on many of your ideas and suggestions. We want your feedback on these first units. You know how to find us -- but we are also creating forums keep the convo going. In fact, we are planning an "AMA" (ask me anything) on Reddit to get your ideas. We'll do this in April (date still TBD), after you’ve had time to give OUYA a whirl.
 
Start checking your mailboxes daily as these units roll out over the next few weeks. You'll get an email when your console ships out of our factory. Keep in mind, it’s a rolling shipment, and consoles will be arriving at houses every day for the next several weeks.
 
Once your OUYA arrives: get playing!

As of 7:59 p.m. PT, there are already 104 published games on OUYA (all still free to try), like Final Fantasy III and some new surprises we think you’ll love: Beast Boxing Turbo, Stalagflight, Knightmare Tower, and even one called Save the Puppies. There are already a few entertainment apps, too. You can watch the TV shows and movies you already own with XBMC and Flixster, or watch games streamed through TwitchTV.
 
And developers are releasing new games for OUYA everyday. Eight thousand developers have created developer accounts with us so far.
 
Our hope is to see these game developers express their most creative ambitions through OUYA. We can't wait to see what they unleash on our TVs.
 
OUYA on...
Julie
 
P.S. In case you missed it, as part of making OUYA the most open game platform around, we just announced that we published all the diagrams you’ll need to 3D print an OUYA yourself! Thanks MakerBot (who has a sweet 3D printer, and runs the Thingiverse community site)!

The Ouya is positioning itself as a different kind of console, and the little box certainly has a lot of potential. Its curated approach to discovery could help the truly good games get the recognition they deserve. The ability for developers to easily share and test their ideas with players is a great feature, and unseen on other consoles. Given everything that separates Ouya from traditional consoles, it's ironic that its greatest challenge is the most traditional of all: Building a solid launch line-up.

Abbigale And The Monster
A Fist of Awesome
Airstrike
AmpGear
Around the Rock Disc Golf
A Space Shooter For 2 Bucks
Barley-Break
Beast Boxing Turbo
Blood
bubblr - Dummy in Trouble
Bunibon 2
Canabalt
Chomper Deluxe
Combat Demonstration
Command Crisis: Callsign
ConSoul - x86 PC Emulation
Deep Dungeouns of Doom
Donut Get!
Dubwars
EMUya - NES Emulation
Escape
Escape F2P
EVAC
Fallen Heroes
Farm Invasion
Final Fantasy III
Fist of Fury
Flying Car
Forsaken Planet
Gamius Type IV
Giana Sisters
God Of Blades
Grow
Guns N Glory WW2
Gunslugs
Happy Vikings
Hexicheckers
Highway Rally
Ice Rage
iMech Online
Jelly Bounce
Jsidd Code Factory
King of Booze
King of the Hill
Kinito Ninja
Knightmare Tower
Lemming Rampage 2
Lord of Portals
Maze City
Monocle Man
Mosaic
Multi Space
Mupen64Plus - N64 Emulation
Natural Soccer
One Tap Hero
Orbiter
Organ Trail
Paper Wings
Phoenix Revival
Pinball Arcade
Pingo: Puzzle Poker
Pixel Pig Deluxe
Pix n Love Rush
Polarity
Power Ups That Kill
Proton Pulse
Puddle
Puzzle 2
Quizania
Radiant
Rage Runner
RED
Regular Ordinary Boy
Riding Rhodri
Saturday Morning RPG
Save the Puppies
Shuttle Rush
Sky Maze 3D
Sophia's World
Space Buggers
Space Repair Inc
Space Sokoban
Space Tech Quality Assurance
SPiN WARS
Square Off
Stalagflight (Julie Uhrman's favorite game)
Star Shipping
Striker Soccer Euro 2012
Stupid Zombies 2
Subatomic Kangaroo World Tour
Super Daddio 2
SuperGNES - SNES Emulation
Swindler The Game
Syder Arcade
The Amazing Frog
The Ball
The Little Crane that Could
The Secret Universe of Alpha
The Vestibule
Tower Master
Twitch.tv
Vector
Wizorb
Word Shaker
Zombies & Trains  

- The OUYA supports PS3 controllers over Bluetooth - not using any special apps, but natively. On the controller pairing screen, plug your PS3 controller in via USB, it gets paired up, and then you can use it wirelessly to control the OUYA interface. Many games support PS3 controllers, but not all, since the button codes have to be programmed into the games.
 
- When you press the power button normally to shut the OUYA off, it goes into a "sleep" mode, so has instant power-on afterwards. And can be turned on by the controller (if powered off that way). Also, just turning on your TV to the OUYA input will wake it up.
 
- The OUYA motherboard is more secure against getting too much power than the OUYA fan - so if you plug in a power supply with too much voltage, the fan will be the first thing to die.
 
- The controller faceplates are held on by a bunch of small magnets
 
- The OUYA only officially supports 1080p and 720p, whichever is the higher resolution that your TV can accept. If your TV can't tell the OUYA that it accepts either one, you end up with an ugly very low resolution.
 
- The standard OUYA Kickstarter shipping box holds one OUYA and one controller - if you ordered extra controllers, chances are your shipment will be sent later because of that (but it won't wait until after the normal packages are sent, it's not that bad of a delay).
 
- Julie Uhrman used to work at IGN, specifically at their Direct 2 Drive digital game download service, and the very first person to invest in the company was the president of IGN, who is now chairman of the board. So expect a lot of OUYA coverage on IGN in the coming days, and IGN was the first site to break news about the OUYA.
 
- A lot of the early "Angel" investors were knowledgeable about creating and shipping hardware products, and included Ed Fries, one of the two people who started the XBox project at Microsoft.
 
- The only real hardware difference between an OUYA and an Asus Transformer TF700 is the touchscreen on the TF700.
 
- The final OUYA has two ports that weren't originally planned: Ethernet and the micro-USB port. Micro-USB was added to make it easier to develop, originally the OUYA developers had to open the case to hook up a wire directly to the motherboard (this was before the official dev kits), and Ethernet was something people were demanding from day one in the Kickstarter comments.
 
- Julie Uhrman likes to talk about how the O-U-Y-A letters on the buttons were a result of listening to developers talking about colorblindness, and while it's true that the Kickstarter controller renders showed just colored circles for the controller buttons, and developers did bring that issue up, you can see right from the first Kickstarter video that the letters were already planned - the early mockups of the OUYA interface show those buttons doing actions (O for launch, U for details, Y for search).
 
- OUYA has a web browser built-in (just the standard Android browser)
 
- The OUYA console has a weight in the bottom of it making the system heavier, to keep it from flopping over when cables are attached, and the final consoles have a heavier weight than the dev consoles.
 
- The controller analogue stick nubs can be just pulled off and replaced with other ones, not even a screwdriver required - PS3 sticks fit perfectly (but it's a lot harder to remove a PS3 stick from a PS3 controller).
 
- On the final OUYA controllers, holding down the Home button for a bit will return you to the OUYA system menu, and tapping it once will bring up in-game menus. But the hardware in the development controllers is unable to detect being held down - pressing it results in an instant press and release message regardless of how long you hold it down. Specifically because of this, they made it so you can also double-tap the Home button to return to the OUYA system menu, so that developers could test that functionality in their games.
 
- The man who was sent to Taiwan to work with the manufacturers to fix the d-pad on final units, was given orders not to return until he could win at a certain level in Street Fighter using the d-pad
 
- The OUYA supports stereoscopic 3D on 3DTV's, for any game programmed for it.