The Ouya is having a hard time being accepted as a serious gaming console. This powerful little ninety-nine dollar Adroid device has some pretty interesting indie games, but we certainly haven’t seen any true blockbusters come out on it. The Ouya team has been doing a lot of finagling with their policies to make the console more appealing, especially when it comes to game development and hmebrew software. In a way, the Ouya is the console of the garage programmer, undercutting the man by making their own games and their own software that don’t have to abide by anybodies rules. They don’t even use your currency man! They use BitCoins… and are mostly laughed at for it.
For those of you who don’t know, BitCoins are a form of online currency that are worth… uh… basically whatever people say they are worth. They aren’t based on anything. They don’t have a country to back them up or any physical resources to base their value on. They are simply assigned as people run computers to solve algorythms. It’s mostly used in black market transactions and has been fairly prominent in the drug trade… though now you can also buy an Ouya with it… I guess?
Actually, the Ouya is the only thing you can use BitCoins on, when it comes to the Ouya console. You can’t actually buy Ouya games with BitCoins. You still need to use a credit card. That being said, Ouya CEO and co founder Julie Uhrman says that PayPal support for Ouya store purchases is coming soon, at which point you can use BitCoin exchange sites to turn them into real… ish… money and pick up whatever Ouya games you want.
Source: Ouya Twitter