Yeah, as I said in the shoutbox I’m facing two main choices for my own holiday… to get an Ouya (mainly for emulation) and a shit ton of cheap 360 and PS3 games, or to invest in a system I don’t have yet and get a Wii U (I don’t have a Wii yet, so the backwards compatibility would open up two gens of Nintendo goodness).

Now before you say that’s an easy choice, I have a strange fascination with the Ouya.  When it was a Kickstarter I almost chipped in just to get one… but now there’s a $130 holiday one coming out with 32 gigs memory.  Sure, there’s not a ton of great software for it as just a gaming rig… but I’d hack mine to run emulators and I’ve got ever Rom known to man.  (And it’s a bitch and a half getting emus to run well or with a controller on PC)  Not only that, but there’s a shit ton of cool games being worked on for it… including an unofficial follow up to Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee by the original developers.  Add to that the fact you can flat out play all the games on Ouya for free BEFORE you buy, and a relatively low price point on games, and it’s very fucking attractive.

The Wii U on the other hand is just more Nintendo recycling.  Sure the tablet thing is cool, but there’s what… 30 games on disc total so far?  You literally HAVE to delve into Wii territory to flesh out your collection at that point… and while Sin & Punishment and a few others are must haves, the majority of the Wii library is motion control bloatware.  That said, it’d be pretty cool to be able to sit and play games on the tablet while other people watch TV and shit like that.  I kind of vowed I wouldn’t buy their shit unless they woke the hell up and fixed their stupidity after Gamecube died because they pissed of the 3rd party devs… and it kinda feels like I’m in an abusive relationship with Mario and Luigi taking turns smacking me around.

Overall, I’d love a Xbox One truth be told… but the launch lineup on it and the PS4 are shit.  I’m not shelling out $500 for a paper weight that’ll be largely used as a remote control until Halo 5 or Fallout 4 comes out.  Grrr.

So what do you guys and gals think?  What consoles and games  are you getting this year?  What games look like they might change my mind.  Inquiring minds wanna know…