Inferior system creeps into video game market

Julie Uhrman needed $950,000 from Kickstarter in less than a month to make her dream of an affordable, free-to-play gaming console a reality. She got it in eight hours - and nearly $8 million more after that. "It was the opposite of Field of Dreams," said Uhrman, a gaming-industry veteran and former vice president at IGN. "It was, if you come, we will build this." And so was born Ouya (pronounced OOO-yuh), a US$99 console that's shaped like and is just a hair bigger than a Rubik's Cube. It runs on Google's Android operating system and requires developers to offer a version of their games for free. A trial period is a tempting offer, but not if the console runs Android. If Apple makes one, then I might be on board for that. Androids suck.