Mad Catz is a reputation that many aged-school gamers will go along with subpar third-party accessories while modern fighting game fans love the corporate for its high-quality fight sticks. Both probably never thought the corporate will be getting in the console business though.

Mad Catz announced today that it’ll be officially entering the micro-console market on December 10 with the M.O.J.O. The $250 micro-console will join the likes of the Ouya and Nvidia Shield in trying to convince consumers that playing mobile games on TVs is somehow preferred over their native home on mobile devices.

“The M.O.J.O. Micro-Console for Android has attracted strong interest through its high-performance hardware, open software platform and the ecosystem of accessories,” said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. “M.O.J.O. is the centerpiece of our GameSmart mobile initiative and brings core gaming experiences to the mobile platform.”

So, what’s this “high performance hardware” that Richardson speaks of? In any case, the Ouya claimed an analogous thing, and its Tegra 3-based chipset has only proven to be a hurdle in bringing mobile games to the large screen. Well, the M.O.J.O. should be one upping the Ouya with a Tegra 4 CUP clocked at 1.8GHz, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, HDMI out capabilities and a microSD slot with support for as much as 128GB flash carts. It also runs on Android 4.2.2 so it will become ready to make the most all however the most advanced mobile graphics technologies.

Even with those specs, will it’s enough to convince folks that this micro-console thing isn’t only a fad? It’s hardware is surely in a position to playing some pretty games, and its controller doesn’t look cheap. Beyond that, its only real defining feature is that it would stream PC games out of your PC to the lounge. So that it will certainly excite some PC gamers, but a lot of them will probably watch for the presumably more cost-effective SteamOS-powered streaming machines.

Still, when you’re captivated by Mad Catz foray into the micro-console space, you could look at more details here.

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