I'm usually very frank in my criticisms of OUYA as a company. My opinions don't come from a place of pessimism about the device's future, but from a position of optimism. I feel very passionate about the OUYA, and I feel that I should point out their missteps because I don't want to see a young company with such potential fail the way so many comparable products have.

That's why I'm happy to say that Julie Uhrman and her team at OUYA genuinely seem to be taking these criticisms to heart. It takes a lot of guts for a CEO to internalize their mistakes, but to publicly recognize and accept your mistakes, nevermind getting up on a stage, speaking to hundreds of people about it really takes something else.

You really need to watch OUYA CEO, Julie Uhrman's XOXO Festival talk. It's more than worth your time.