AMD to power new Steam Handheld Device

andybird123 · 11 Aug 2015 at 13:33

I've got a shield tablet, its a very good android tablet, cheaper than the equivalent google/samsung/apple, plays android games, and has its own market place for Shield android games that make use of the controller, plus it has grid so you can play PC games anywhere (free at the moment but possible subscription later) AND you can stream games in home from your own PC

And shankly

GameStream gaming outside of your home Wi-Fi network is a BETA feature. NVIDIA recommends internet bandwidth of 10Mbps from your PC down to SHIELD and 2Mbps from SHIELD up to your PC. Streaming experience may vary depending on the quality of your Internet.

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2015 at 13:35

Also. Anyone who thinks they're reliabily playing their steam library anyway is kidding themselves.

humbug · 11 Aug 2015 at 13:38

You can stream from Desktop on any Android Device.

It looks like it is a bit like Shield, only difference probably being this will play Unix (OGL) and no doubt Vulkan Games, like having a Moblie Ubuntu or, well... SteamOS device.

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2015 at 13:38

Grid looks good.
Shocker as Nvidia give more support to their device.
Didn't know anything about it.
Don't think it's enough, but it's more than I've seen in terms of support.

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2015 at 13:40

humbug said:
You can stream From Desktop on any Android Device.

It looks like it is a bit like Shield, only difference probably being this will play Unix (OGL) and no doubt Vulkan Games, like having a Moblie Ubuntu or, well... SteamOS device.

Yeah. I've tried steaming games over my network to my phone.
It's not even close to being good enough. Yet steam streaming is perfection.

If it's anything other than windows then native gaming goes out of the window. And playing modern games natively on it.lol.

Gregster · 11 Aug 2015 at 13:43

Martini1991 said:
Yeah. I've tried steaming games over my network to my phone.
It's not even close to being good enough. Yet steam streaming is perfection.

If it's anything other than windows then native gaming goes out of the window. And playing modern games natively on it.lol.

Yer I did as well. It wasn't a good experience

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2015 at 13:44

Gregster said:
Yer I did as well. It wasn't a good experience

That's why Nvidia has s far better solution.
I've tried a few android solutions. None are pleasent.

shankly1985 · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:02

Steam also support steaming natively from the steam program to any home network pc or laptop.
This seems to be there aim for outside the home network.

Freddie1980 · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:03

Martini1991 said:
You mean like when they released a new one?

The shield tablet is a year old, there is no replacement for it that i'm aware of.

Gregster said:
Yer I did as well. It wasn't a good experience

I've tried a bit streaming and the receiving device will still need semi decent horse power to enable it to decode the transmission in time so you don't experience stutter and I imagine that was the problem with you phone. I'm not sure how it works but the benefit of Shield is Nvidia has managed to reduce latencies and lag which can effect the experience on other platforms.

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:10

Freddie1980 said:
The shield tablet is a year old, there is no replacement for it that i'm aware of.

It's literally not been out a year in the UK, just under.

There's plenty of rumours for its successor.

Seems to be there's absolutely no reason to hate on their support of it yet.

mmj_uk · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:10

A Jaguar based CPU running standard PC games? I can't imagine that will be a hugely enjoyable experience.

Martini1991 · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:13

I'd be surprised if it sees the light of day.

Poneros · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:25

How is everyone comparing it with Shield but completely missing the part with the controls? I.e. the crucial part of handheld/mobile gaming?

Jarrastafari · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:37

The minute spent viewing that video was the most horrid thing I've done all day.

Freddie1980 · 11 Aug 2015 at 14:44

Jarrastafari said:
The minute spent viewing that video was the most horrid thing I've done all day.

Go and have a look through the Wasps thread in GD. That will give you nightmares.

Orangey · 11 Aug 2015 at 15:29

720p is a joke these days, phones have 4K...

shankly1985 · 11 Aug 2015 at 15:33

Orangey said:
720p is a joke these days, phones have 4K...

4k phone? I thought the highest was 1440p.

shankly1985 · 11 Aug 2015 at 15:34

mmj_uk said:
A Jaguar based CPU running standard PC games? I can't imagine that will be a hugely enjoyable experience.

But it's not running them though.

andybird123 · 11 Aug 2015 at 15:35

Poneros said:
How is everyone comparing it with Shield but completely missing the part with the controls? I.e. the crucial part of handheld/mobile gaming?

yes it has a game pad, how is that different from Shield?

Oh Ed not again. · 11 Aug 2015 at 15:56

shankly1985 said:
But it's not running them though.

From what I understood it would be running some games natively, and being that it's a Steam client I assumed that it would support streaming as the other Steam clients do. Would be daft if it didn't seeing as Valve are hell bent on getting Steam on as many devices as possible at the moment.

Instead of developing games...