Ouya will begin shipping with a redesigned controller soon, Ouya 2 being planned for release in 2014

[froggyboy604]

Company founder Julie Uhrman's aware of the issue and, in an interview with Polygon, she revealed that a new version of the Ouya controller is already on the production line. Taking the abundant consumer feedback into account, the company's phased out the old model and made some key fixes, including more secure triggers, improved thumbstick grips and buttons that (hopefully) don't get stuck in the controller's base.

Uhrman also touched upon news of the Ouya 2, the release of which falls in line with previous reports of an annual update cycle. Specs for that next console haven't been finalized yet and, further, the company won't really be focusing on it until sometime in 2014. But when it does arrive next year, you can expect to see it receive an slight cosmetic update from designer Yves Behar.

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The redisgned controller sounds nice. I'm glad to see that Ouya is listening to Ouya's owner feedback to improve their controller.

I wonder would there be a price drop on the Ouya 1 when the Ouya 2 is release, so the Ouya 1 cost $50-75 which may attract a lot of gamers who just plan on playing 2013 games which the Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, and 1GB of RAM can handle.

Hopefully, the Ouya 2 being release next year come with the Tegra 4, or Tegra 5 from Nvidia, so people who wants more Power than a Tegra 3 would be more satisfied by the increase speed. Increasing the storage to 32-64GB would also be great.

 

[Guardian]

I hadn't heard of them doing a yearly update, I do find that interesting. Usually it isn't a great idea for a console to do that but if it stays that cheap it could be pretty lucrative for them. 

 

[froggyboy604]

I read a few months a go Ouya is planning a yearly release, and if they can, they will sell the next Ouya for a cheaper price which is lower than $99 because they can find cheaper parts suppliers, and manufactuers for its console.

If newer games are backwards compatible with the Ouya 1, I don't really see much of a problem with yearly releases like how I  and many others still play newer games on older PC/Laptop, older tablet, and other gaming devices even though I can buy newer devices to play games, but I do not since I mainly play games for fun, and I'm less concerned with super good graphics.