NVIDIA unveil their own handheld Android gaming console, ‘Project Shield’
By Tim Colwill on January 7, 2013 at 4:40 pm
News breaking moments ago out of CES indicates that NVIDIA are about to move out of the graphics hardware market and into the general gaming hardware market, deploying a prototype of what they’re calling ‘Project Shield’, a handheld Android gaming console.
Project Shield is said to be able to play ‘PC quality games’ and is running on an NVIDIA Tegra processor capable of 4K resolution video playback. The battery claims 5-10 hours of play time or 24 hours of HD video playback, and the screen is a 720p retinal multi-touch display that folds over the controller inputs in a clamshell-like design. Controller inputs are standard, incorporating a dual control-stick setup and four action buttons.
NVIDIA have just sent through some official details, and it seems the main selling point for PC gamers is this: “Created with the philosophy that gaming should be open and flexible, Project SHIELD flawlessly plays both Android and PC titles.”
“As a pure Android device, it gives access to any game on Google Play. And as a wireless receiver and controller, it can stream games from a PC powered by NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs, accessing titles on its STEAM game library from anywhere in the home.”
Source: The Verge
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Literally a minute after I post that a press release flies in, woo
“it can stream games from a PC powered by NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs, accessing titles on its STEAM game library from anywhere in the home.”
So you still need to have a gaming PC in the same location as the ‘Project Shield’ to stream with cause its not likely to work over the Net. May as well just sit at your PC to play if your not interested in the Android games on offer. Save yourself some money.
Depends how much being able to stream games to other parts of your wireless network is worth to you, especially if it works seamlessly (i.e. you need to go to the toilet mid-game so you pick up the thing and the screen content transfers across). In that respect it’s much like the remote play function on the WiiU, though if it goes over wifi then it’ll be both more flexible and potentially flakier, what with all the associated bandwidth issues that can crop up over congested wifi channels.
Depending on the price and actual features I’d consider picking one up, if the PC streaming works well.
When somebody linked me a news article related to this I checked my calendar to make sure it wasnt April 1st.
Sounds a bit meh. Didn’t think the portable gaming market was that big anymore.
Interesting. Worth giving a good poke I think .. a fair bit of potential there.
For me, I’m sort of interested in seeing if/how Ubuntu can run on it .. with that hardware, it would be pretty damn awesome. Certainly watching this space.
Wyld,
I’m sure they’ll lock it down and make it as hard as possible to take control over the hardware you paid for. ‘cos you know, being able to do what you want with your hardware is such a callous and old-school idea in the eyes of many companies I’ve noticed.
Seems really expensive like more than a grand expensive
What’s the point, really – you make decent use of it you’ll need to be in your home anyway – why not actually just play your PC.
As an extension of a good home PC this looks pretty cool. Letting you play games from any comfy spot in the house, letting the kid play a game whilst you are doing other stuff. I don’t think this is supposed to be competing with portable gaming systems but more as something to supplement the home network for people already treating their PC as a media centre.
I’m not the most knowledgeable in these things but to me, that doesn’t sound like a good thing.
Seems like a solution in search of a problem. I mean sure some of the tricks it can do are kinda cool but who’s gonna leave their kb/mouse and big screen in favor of that uncomfortable looking controller and small screen when you have to keep your computer running anyway?
And then there’s the fact it’s made to run Android games, we already have the tablets and phones that those games were originally designed for so why would people get this instead when phones/tablets play those games on top of many more functions.
If it was being brought in as a possible competitor to the 3DS and Vita with its own library of games along with the other things it can do then it *might* have a chance (though still very slim) but as it is I just don’t see the point.
It’s a bit ugly ain’t it?
I think it would be cool to be able to move from PC to the handheld and then to a TV, all through the one device.
Did people completely miss the fact it’s a stock android device? This thing is going to be hacked to bits as soon as it’s released, guarantee it. It runs a stock standard android version, no bloat ware or anything on it, you hit the shield icon on the controller to swap between different things. It can stream basically any game from your PC onto the device, then also out put it to your TV in your lounge room or whatever.
There’s sometime I just wanna sit on the couch and play my PC Games, and this gives me the chance to do it.
Was going to get an OUYA but not anymore, This tegra 4 device is a beast!