Mad Catz has a long history of making third-party controllers for existing consoles past and current generation, but now instead they are branching into the ‘console market’ directly themselves by building yet another Android Gaming Console Platform, but they claim it will be better then OUYA, as it has more horsepower under the hood, and it will work with all existing Android Games and even Amazon Apps, you will not have to wait for custom-make games to be ported to their console, just login and download what you want from Google Play or Amazon AppStore.
The system leverages Mad Catz’s GameSmart platform, which was introduced back in January at CES. GameSmart is a range of cross-platform Bluetooth accessories designed for tablets, smartphones, PCs, and smart TVs. Project M.O.J.O. is expected to ship with the company’s C.T.R.L.R. Bluetooth controller, which offers a full suite of dual-analog thumbstick, trigger, d-pad controls for gamepad-enabled Android titles, like Dead Trigger, ShadowGun, and more. For games designed for touch controls, consumers will also be able to use Mad Catz’s GameSmart mice.
While the company maintains that Project M.O.J.O. is merely in its prototyping stages, the final hardware is expected to ship with 16GB of internal storage with expandable microSD storage, Bluetooth Smart 4.0 (when the next version of Android ships), two USB ports for wired gamepads and other accessories, HDMI, Wi-Fi, and a headphone port.
For processing, Mad Catz hasn’t committed to any specific silicon yet, but it’s currently investigating Nvidia’s Tegra 4 processor, which was also unveiled at CES earlier this year.
No word on when Project M.O.J.O. will be out or its final specs. or even the price, but maybe they will tell us more during E3 week!
