Ouya Kickstarter Earns $8.6 Million in Pledges

Regardless of whatever reservations I might personally have towards Ouya, I know that many others do not share my doubts. 

In case you're not in the know, Ouya is a new console built on Android and is designed to provide an alternative to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with freedom for indie developers to make their games on. 

Though the idea is good, the project is potentially rife with issues—namely that the lack of DRM on the system might make it a haven for piracy and scare away games publishers who'd have much to lose for putting their games on the platform. 

In any case, the Ouya Kickstarter closed today, earning itself close to $8.6 million in funding, which goes well above its stated goals. 63,416 people funded the system, many of whom paid enough to receive a unit when it's supposed to go live—assuming they have enough money to manufacture the requested units and send them out. 

Activision and other big publishers have yet to sign on to the project, but that hasn't stopped smaller developers from pledging their support. Time will tell if the whole thing works out or not.