Hey Guys and Gals,

This is our final mini-update for this month (and the year!). We formally launched at the end of June and have released 6 substantial Updates in the past 6 months – with a few hotfixes sprinkled in for good measure 😛 It’s all about constantly making OUYA better. This update has primarily under the hood improvements (speed, bug fixes, foundational work), and we’ve also got some sweet changes that’ll be more visible to you:

• Improved recommendations in the System Menu to dynamically give recommendations based on the game you are currently playing.

• Added settings to allow you to prioritize bluetooth or wi-fi based on their needs. Default settings will automatically prioritize bluetooth with 2 or more controllers connected.

• Navigation performance improvements in DISCOVER – This is an ongoing effort, but you should already see noticeable improvement.

• Tweaked the position of the active row in DISCOVER to better show rows below it.

• More External Storage Open Beta bug fixes

  • Added spinners to USB dialog boxes to make it more clear that an action is taking place and it’s not stalled.

  • Fixed an issue where ejecting a USB drive sometimes reported that a download was in progress when there was no download.

  • Fixed an issue where entering game details of an installing game would display no information.

  • Fixed several cases where a bad removal could require a console restart to get USB functionality back.

• Added the ability to ask survey questions in the System Menu. Your feedback is incredibly important to us, so keep an eye out for these questions.

• We’ve got improved error reporting and have added the ability for our Customer Service team to work with gamers to get better log information.

• Fixed an issue that would cause gamers to get an incremental then a full update when they shouldn’t (fixed going forward).

• Fixed an issue where sometimes Update Notes wouldn’t display after an update.

If you don’t get this update right away, please go to MANAGE -> SYSTEM -> SYSTEM UPDATES.

Also, as mentioned in our last update blog post, we are looking into XBMC Audio Passthrough and CEC support as our next tasks. We know y’all want it, so we are working on making it happen =)

Thank you everyone for your continued support! We check out the forums, reddit comments, and livestreams. We appreciate all the positive comments and constructive criticisms. Whether you are checking out our server responses to scrape Update Notes a few days early (Hi, RiotingSpectre :P) or live streaming your first few play sessions with an OUYA on Twitch (nice work, Mungry) – you guys make our community awesome and we are grateful for that =)

Keep an eye on this blog in the New Year, as we’ll have more cool announcements and will start giving you a look ahead at our plans for the year!