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Now that I'm more awake and reread the Ouya post, it goes to great effort to mislead which is pretty par for them. It really tries to imply that it's being released specifically for Ouya with "partnering with Square Enix to bring you", " first time gamers outside of Japan can play FFIII", "Previously unreleased in the U.S.", etc.

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To be fair they had qualifiers like "on the TV"

Yep - stretching as far as they can to mislead without outright lying. I'm pretty certain if you didn't know that the game was already out on iOS/Android you would come away with the impression that this was some sort of exclusive deal with Ouya.

And... I suspect that this is the reason why so many people are very suspicious of the project; they seem desperate to mislead as much as possible, at every opportunity.

I understand that they want to drum up support and give a positive impression so that more people will join in, but a little more honesty I suspect would go a long way.

Yeah...but you could also do through any number of various mobile-device-hookups to the TV already. And the distinction between phone and console device is pretty arbitrary...

They were talking about the DS version, not the OUYA version.

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