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Why isn't Google making every single Google TV set top box like a mini-Android console? It's not like they would have to change a whole lot about it. Just make sure it has a high-end ARM chip, 2 controllers included, and they actually try to give incentives to developers to port their games for it, which should be a minimal amount of coding if they already have an Android game.

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Good Question. I think the majority issue is: 1. Gaming in Android isn't that impressive yet. 2. They are def. working on it. But they don't want to make so many enemies (Sony) before they have a chance. For them, it is not a huge profitable item. Getting the Google TV into the living room is more important. But I can see Google TV eventually will become a console and OuYA will die out.

It doesn't need to die out. They can continue to make the hardware, and adopt the new software. Not sure about the whole free-games thing, though.

Interesting. I thought about this. I think they will have their own market and not open to the official android market so that they will the cut of profit that games generated.

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