I'm not all 'meeeugh mainstream sucks' (I play plenty of Fifa and what have you!) but I think indie games are great! True 90% of them are just rehashes of what has come before but I'm a sucker for shoddy platform games anyway :D
Thing is that the indie dev meme is true, most of them are busy reinventing stuff from 20-25 years ago and when one of them finally has a good idea they all stick to their own shitty projects.
afaik kickstarter and (external) investors do not mix well, i thought they have some kind of rule on this. besides that what, over 6.000.000 dollars for a 'console' running android 4.0 on a tegra 3!?? the fuck is going on?
Yup. I really don't get how those code monkeys plan to get anything out of it considering they can't code their shit to run decently on a low end pc anyway.
I think Ouya is a pretty good example of how people will jump to their own conclusions based on almost no information because they see what they want to see. Also, people have too much money.