Asus has announced that it will be unleashing its own Android console on the gaming world. The Game Box will join several other Android game consoles already on the market as well as others being planned and on the way.

Android software powered 75 percent of all smartphones and 57 percent of all tablets shipped globally in the first quarter of 2013, just one year ago, according to the research firm IDC. Clearly, Android has taken a firm hold on the mobile device market, and now companies want to exploit Android’s open-source platform to create games and game consoles that can compete against video gaming giants like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

Asus is one of the most recent players to enter the arena. But with all of the Android consolesalready in existence or in their planning stages, do we really need yet another one?

Current Android Game Consoles

You can find quite a few Android game consoles already in use:

OUYA – A console that has 714 games currently available, as well as apps for streaming TV, movies and music. It also acts as an open dev kit for game developers who want to build video games for its version of the Android platform. (console and controller, $99 8GB, $129 16 GB)

– A console that has 714 games currently available, as well as apps for streaming TV, movies and music. It also acts as an open dev kit for game developers who want to build video games for its version of the Android platform. (console and controller, $99 8GB, $129