Uh oh. NVidia have just upset the apple cart and have announced a brand new portable console at CES.
The “Shield” runs on pure Android (without any bloatware) and will play games from Google’s own Store alongside a special NVIDIA TegraZone store – Shield runs off a Tegra 4, with 72 cores, with battery life of 5-10 hours.
It’s easily the most powerful mobile console (by a mile) and can play 4K videos and even drive a 4K TV set, making it well and truly future proof.
It’s got a proper controller shape, has a 5 inch 720p screen (with 294ppi Retina-like display) with multitouch. It even has Micro SD support, HDMI out, USB etc.
It’s a monster. It’s out Q2.
Tarak Ford
Wii U pad should of looked like this!
Gamoc
Sold, give me one already.
gazzagb
Will be interesting to see how they price it and how it fairs against Vita and Ouya.
plutoniumdragon
Hopefully Tegra 4 is quite a jump up because I don’t think personally that any of the current Tegra 3 devices or games live up to their hype.
Hate the clamshell design though, never could get on with the DS, still got to be worth a try if the price is right :)
KeRaSh
I’ve just read about the Steam integration and PC game streaming. This is like a WiiU Game Pad for your PC. Sounds pretty neat.
TSBonyman
Sounds interesting and great to see the console market isn’t as dead as has been suggested recently.
XisTG
Looks hideous.
I’m curious to know the price though, as I think this will be to expensive to play Android games.
Origami Killer
Impressive machine, however, it looks ugly…really ugly.
Paranoimia
I just can’t get interested in anything that’s designed to play Android games, as – to be perfectly blunt about it – the majority of them are utter shit.
I’ve played some of the ‘better’ console-style ones (Dead Trigger, etc.) on my Nexus 7 with a PS3 controller connected, and they just don’t compare to the console equivalents.
There are some real gems on Android/iOS, but for the most part I feel you have to have pretty low gaming standards to be impressed by the vast majority of what’s available. I don’t care how pretty a game looks, or how little it costs, if it is ultimately an unfulfilling experience. Hence I’ve no interest in this or Ouya.