Does anyone have any idea how the thing is doing? Official numbers seem near impossible to come by and the OUYA people themselves outright refuse to give out any information on the subject, it seems. There have been a lot of complaints though, both from users and developers, as expected.

I think what I want to know is; was I right in thinking this would be a massive, massive flop and that the thing has no place in the market? The only hints I can get at is that it has sold somewhere between 100-150k until now (a whooping 4K retail for all of August), that's not a whole lot since the June release, if true. Software sales are certainly paltry and the list of people and companies who have actually stated to have made any kind of money on this thing is a terribly quick read.

Anyone have any info here?

The console will go into obscurity as one of the worst consoles ever made. And who knows maybe it will be like those old games that suck but are extremely expensive  

It's still on the shelves so it's still alive.

Well someone here argued why it can't necessarily flop since it's an open platform that can have infinite support and will continue to do so regardless of sales. (Not the OUYA per say but a similar product that seemed to have flopped in sales).

I think the only way to know for sure is if they announce a successor. The manufacturer did say it would get yearly revisions.

Never heard of it.

The Ouya isn't done just yet.
New Ouya Console will be available in 2014, along with an improved controller.

As for sales, it did sell-out on Amazon and is doing a big push into retail markets like all of Targets retail stores.

Basically as a company, they're learning, they have been climbing an up-hill battle in regards to competing with Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, so credit is due for simply just getting this far in my opinion.
Keep in mind they don't have millions/billions for marketing, so they need to keep pulling high-profile stunts like showing the Ouya in a carpark outside of E3.

Last I heard they had failed to provide what was promised to many supporters / customers and it was in the process of flopping?

It's releasing here in 3 days.
Atleast in my retail store... But my money is going to xcom, ratchet & simcity. SO I couldn't care less

I think their biggest challenge to overcome, by far, will be presenting a platform for developers to make any kind of money one. For now, it appears to be a "legal piracy box", if anything. Without the developers making an effort, it will be hard to justify a purchase and without the installed base and activity among owners, developers have no incentive to release anything, low costs be damned.

Thus far the OUYA seems to be doing pretty bad all in all, both from a gamers and a developers perspective.

Yearly revisions is okay I guess, not much different from most phones manufacturers but does that mean that your OUYA will be useless after 2-3 revisions? If so, that could defeat the purpose of the low entry price in the long run, especially with the amazing deals you can get on phones today through subscription deals.

The concept of OUYA wasn't bad, but it was horribly executed, and maybe even ahead of its time. At this point, there is no need for an android based console. Within six months, no one will care about it at all, and within a year it will probably be hard to find. I would love if a new console could exist, but it won't be the OUYA that's the game changer. The best chance of a game changer, at this point, is the steam box.

Hmm, yeah. I love Valve and everything they do and I will be getting SteamOS and possibly a Steambox. Honestly though, I'm not so sure that either will be a massive success. For now, I'm hoping that SteamOS will really take off and become huge.

I'm not the OUYA was a good concept at all, home consoles have so many features now and phones/tablets and PC's can do pretty much everything else. The market has moved gradually away from MP3 players, pocket cameras and other dedicated devices and moved on to multitasking devices with more features, the OUYA seems to go somewhat against the trend in this regard and as a "dedicated" device, it sports weak hardware and is prone to the same replacements as smartphones and other, similar products.

Personally, I think the OUYA was a bad idea from the beginning.