I'm holding off to see what the next version of Android is or how it turns out. 4.1 is rather impressive (I'm still rocking my original Google Nexus modded to run... just essentially no local storage) but we'll see if there's any plans to keep trying to push the original Nexus with another release. If not, we'll see what vendors Google goes with for vanilla Android since I don't want to end up with Sense or whatever other vendor crap they dump on their phones... or HTC/LG.
WRT the Tegra 3, I'm one of the people who put money in for the Ouya so hopefully I at least get the hardware. I'm hoping to put DOSBox of some variant on it and rocking some classic titles with a controller (OMF, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Jazz Jackrabbit, etc).
Ooh, the Ouya looks slick. But what spec Quad Core Tegra 3 is it running? Also 1GB RAM? Phones like Oppo's Find 5 feature 2GB RAM and 1.5 Ghz Quad Core Snapdragon S4 already... Hook up a controller and badabing.
Of course, the Ouya's proposed ecosystem makes it a winner, but launching with 4.0 rather than 4.1 as a base OS will also sacrifice performance no?
BTW on Android already there's OpenTyrian which I love and have completed Still holding out for the carrot ship!
WRT Ouya: What a lot of people seem to be neglecting/forgetting about it is that although it's using a mobile processor, it's going to have a dedicated power source so they'll be able to clock both the CPU & the RAM higher than they likely would for a phone.
The Tegra 3 clocks up to 1.6 Ghz (no clue on if that's factoring in OCing due to dedicated power), has 4+1 cores and a 1GB of RAM. Compare that to the 360 and it's 1 additional core (the +1 is a joke, really), and 2x the RAM. However, memory bandwidth could be a factor and how the on-die GPU compares to the "dedicated" of the 360 is questionable. At worst I'm sure they could pull off Wii-level graphics without breaking a sweat.
Besides, I'll likely mod the hardware anyway to run whatever is the latest stock version of Android... unless their UI is amazing and lets me side-load apps.
The Tegra 3, last I knew, has variants that go up to 1.7 GHz, but still... oddly enough, the biggest weak point to that SoC is the GPU. It'll do better than Wii-level graphics, but it's still a ways short of a 360/PS3.
Regarding the Nexus, apparently Google is changing their Nexus program, and most every manufacturer will have a Nexus device out (HTC, LG, and Sony have all had Nexus phones rumored, and Samsung has a Nexus tablet planned). Could be interesting to see what transpires - don't know anything about the specs of the Sony Nexus (Nexus X), but its appearance is striking, to say the least.
EDIT: Interestingly enough, I still have my Nexus One, rooted and running ICS, and am using it as a media player.
I'm sorry, but HTC One X+ is running 1.7GHz Tegra 3 and is still powered by a 2,100mAh battery.
I've played this and it runs slick on the Pad Infinity.
Yeah, it's getting up there, although not quite to PS3/360 levels (right now, the only SoC that gets to that level of performance is the one in the third-gen iPad, although the Adreno 320 in the Optimus G is in the ballpark).
Odds are we'll see some PS3/360-beating mobile chips middle of next year once Samsung and TSMC start taping out designs on 22nm processes.
The others are still being talked about, guess we'll see for sure next week when Google has their big announcement (which apparently will also be the release of Key Lime Pie).
Lol... I remember that one kid who wanted to make OMF: Destiny. That was a very education message thread.