There is a hell of a lot of games on android that are superior to basically anything I've ever played on the pandora. (I really mean no offense to pandora developers but it's true) Not just limited to visually (even though that's the most obvious difference), but gameplay quality and depth as well. This isn't 2009 anymore, the android gaming scene has grown exponentially and continues to grow more and more every day. OUYA and NVIDIA are in the game of getting game publishers to take it seriously it's already paying off big time and there's tons more to follow. I used to always say the future looks bright.....Well the present is extremely enjoyable as it sits today IMO. It can only get better. Jump on the train or get left behind and the user experience will suffer, your choice.
The investment of resources would pay off in the number of customers that would buy it as a pocket android gaming by it's self. It would immediately pay for whatever investment you make in contracting that out and then some. Then the publicity of being a dual boot android linux device where basically no android in this form factor exists at all. The added value you get from all the software will benefit those who just don't want to use it as a main OS. I actually can't believe some of the arguments I'm hearing against it. I can't even begin to respond to them (ekianjo) as it would just seem like I'm being an android fanboy trying to fend off some of your points. But honestly if you can't see the added value you're being thick headed plain and simple. You want what you want, but don't want anyone else to have what they want if it's not what you want. That mentality pisses me off to no end. If you don't want it, don't use it, have an official means to get rid of it, or have a community modification that I'm sure will show up. It's infinitely more likely to than android showing up as a community mod.
Anyway, this is a series of databases/lists of just games that I've found over the years. Obviously there are some duplicates between the lists, but there's easily over 500 quality titles to be played or had.
XDA Developers forum post with 400+ games and growing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217060
Xperia Gamer with games with physical controller support
http://www.xperiagamer.com/Games/USB-Pad-Optimised/
Xperia Gamer with games with xperia play specific support (other devices may also be supported)
http://www.xperiagamer.com/Android/Xperia-PLAY-Optimized/
Nvidia's list of ~100 games that are known to work with the shield
http://shield.nvidia.com/play-android-games/
Community list of android games that have NVIDIA shield specific support (other devices may also be supported)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al_tgDiSllFFdGhJQ3p3d1JDTU0wS3IyNjVxdDB6MVE#gid=3
Not to mention with a touchscreen to hardware controller mapper that list jumps to the thousands.
Personal computing software is what linux does best, so thats why linux should be there too, but gaming is one android's strength, that's why it should be included on a device that features gaming controls. Multimedia both local and via the internet is also another strength of android, and of which I could also produce of list of titles that outside the current list the pandora has to offer but I don't think that would serve the purpose of this argument very well. Point is having both will only improve the software ecosystem.