This new alternative console nonsense should give us a new high water mark in open software's endless vapor trail. We've been waiting for a real alternative to Windows for a decade and it hasn't happened. There hasn't even been an Office killer of any note yet. When it comes to the PC, there's just no getting around Microsoft. For all it's flaws, Windows/Office is just too good (except Windows 8, which sucks balls).

Having half-assed their way to the lower end of the single digits of the desktop market, the open software people feel that the console market is just itching for a series of inferior also-rans. Ouya is going to crash and burn. You heard it here first. They will in no way be able to market a product with their specs at their projected retail price. Oh, they can have a buggy-as-shit and poorly-built product at that price. You can bet that's the decision they'll make, having already made plenty of unscrupulous decisions in the arduous march from empty concept to vapor.

In what way will this compete with Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo? Do they have enough money to market it in the least? Do they even have enough money to rent storage lockers for all the defective units that will be returned to them? What about simple things like shipping? Are these people ready to actually sell anything at all? I'm sick of hearing buzz. There should be some skepticism. The products of big names often fail and who the hell are these people?