A closer look
Boxer8 launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 for the Ouya, an open-source Android gaming console that raised over eight million dollars on the promise of revolutionizing the indie game market and bringing mobile games to the television. Within a few short years, it became a spectacular commercial failure plagued by terrible controllers, a severe lack of compelling software, and an overall user experience that felt like navigating a broken tablet with a television remote. It remains the absolute gold standard for crowd-funded hubris, brilliantly demonstrating that just because eight million dollars can technically buy you a sleek metallic cube, it cannot buy you a compelling reason for anyone to actually plug it into their television
