Ouya founder Julie Uhrman says to expect “Ouya 2.0” and an updated controller to arrive sometime next year.
In an interview with Polygon, Uhrman said the company didn’t know exactly what it wanted the next iteration of the Android-based console to be.
“The software is constantly iterating because we want to make it constantly better,” she said. “We don’t want to wait six months and then go boom here are all these new features and functionality.
“For the hardware, we are looking at different chips. We are looking at what type of performance we want.”
The updated controller is based on consumer feedback said Uhrman.
“Part of that is taking that feedback, iterating that software, fixing the triggers, fixing the thumbsticks and if that doesn’t work, we’ll iterate it again and if we decide that’s not the right path, we’ll change it,” she said. “I think that’s one thing that differentiates us. We don’t have this firm path we’re going to stay on come hell or high water. We take the feedback from gamers, from developers and we iterate and we change. When it’s not working we say so.”
Speaking at the XOXO festival recently, Uhrman acknowledged that the Ouya’s brief existence has been troubled.
“We have done a lot of things wrong,” she said. “We’ve made a lot of mistakes.”
A funding program ripe for exploitation, consoles delivered late to backers, and a public scrap with the ESA at E3 are amongst the foibles and criticisms levelled at Ouya.

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