Nvidia Announces A Handheld Games Console
Aesthetically, I think this thing looks horrible. On the software side, it runs Android games (Tegra Zone) and can stream STEAM games from a networked home PC to the integrated display. The Shield is undeniably an interesting play by Nvidia, entering a market which is considered to be in decline, but it’s also weird …
The Shield is powered by a Tegra 4, Nvidia’s next smartphone SoC. So, once smartphones ship with the Tegra 4, the only advantage the Shield has over phones is the addition of non-touchscreen gamepad controls. Is that really that big of a draw to make people carry and maintain another device form factor?