*****Nvidia at GDC 2015*****

mulpsmebeauty said:
Without wanting to put words in your mouth, I think you're really meaning to say you want confidence that pushing the boundaries of GPU technology should be their primary focus and shouldn't be impacted by side shows like this. However nVidia are an ambitious company and have to show their shareholders that they are trying to break into bigger markets. If they don't get a foothold elsewhere they might find that in 25 years their primary market is gone or has changed so dramatically that it's no long the money spinner that it was.

So nVidia HAVE to keep trying and keep looking for new revenue streams. All tech companies will be looking for the next ipod/iphone holy grail that will catapult them into the mega billions. Problem for nVidia is that this current product isn't going to change the future of gaming. Equally for something "5 years in the making" it's basically just a processor and some flash RAM in a box, running another company's OS. Samsung could have developed and marketed this in under 12 months.
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Set top boxes aren't a billion dollar thing, they are commodity items(because there are basically 100's of them being sold at cost). Like almost everything Android the money is in software sales, something Nvidia wouldn't have a stake in, they are just selling the box to access the real money. it's why most of these android sticks go for £30-50, cost + minor amount, with hundreds of options, the long term money comes from software sales.

That goes for the PS4/XO/Wii U as well, they get a huge cut of every game sold. That is where the money is, a device like this takes R&D, won't sell at high prices, is effectively just an access point to the real sales. Getting into consoles is daft without a stake in the software sales. Of course nvidia's angle is just trying to sell Tegras, because they planned to stick it in HPC/servers, and had to pull out, they wanted it in phones, but they burned that market, so they started making their own devices because they didn't have an awful lot of other options.

But looking for the next holy grail means doing something new or different. Being the 100th to market with a set top android box is not new, or different and has no significant long term revenue stream.
 
Loving the spec on this, 4k, hdmi2, h265, x1, 256 core maxwell with 3gb ram. This is awesome, will fit nicely under a shiny new 4k tv in my gaming room and have the new steam box in the living room under the Kuro. I love toys and thank-you Nvidia :D
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
Without wanting to put words in your mouth, I think you're really meaning to say you want confidence that pushing the boundaries of GPU technology should be their primary focus and shouldn't be impacted by side shows like this. However nVidia are an ambitious company and have to show their shareholders that they are trying to break into bigger markets. If they don't get a foothold elsewhere they might find that in 25 years their primary market is gone or has changed so dramatically that it's no long the money spinner that it was.

So nVidia HAVE to keep trying and keep looking for new revenue streams. All tech companies will be looking for the next ipod/iphone holy grail that will catapult them into the mega billions. Problem for nVidia is that this current product isn't going to change the future of gaming. Equally for something "5 years in the making" it's basically just a processor and some flash RAM in a box, running another company's OS. Samsung could have developed and marketed this in under 12 months.
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Yup that is more or less it, We know that they need to look at alternative revenue streams as the discrete market might not be what it is today in the future as you say.

Some of these products seem a bit to gimmicky at the moment for me. Now if they come up with the next big thing what ever that maybe then fair enough. But what I am seeing so far is not even close to this :)
 
LambChop said:
Loving the spec on this, 4k, hdmi2, h265, x1, 256 core maxwell with 3gb ram. This is awesome, will fit nicely under a shiny new 4k tv in my gaming room and have the new steam box in the living room under the Kuro. I love toys and thank-you Nvidia :D
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Yeah it's amazing.. Even more powerful than the Xbox 360 that came out in 2005 !! Such progression very wow.

$59.99 dollars to stream games with only minimal lag, very excite !!

Extra £100 would get you a more powerful console with 8GB but who wants to play games locally when we can stream such cheap $59.99 games from the Grid !!

Amazing stuff !!

Nvidia: Android is the future of gaming redefined !! Very wow !!
 
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'Might'...doesn't interest me at all to be honest, I already have countless boxes under my TV that already provide me these services. Except streaming games, but errr...who wants to pay for that, not me.

I was hoping they might announce a 760ti, something interesting.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Yeah it's amazing.. Even more powerful than the Xbox 360 that came out in 2005 !! Such progression very wow.

$59.99 dollars to stream games with only minimal lag, very excite !!

Extra £100 would get you a more powerful console with 8GB but who wants to play games locally when we can stream such cheap $59.99 games from the Grid !!

Amazing stuff !!

Nvidia: Android is the future of gaming redefined !! Very wow !!
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Can I play 4k at 60Hz for the extra £100 on a more powerful console ?
 
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o desync in this demo
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Martini1991 said:
Unfortunately that segregates those not using an Nvidia GPU.

Valve need to sort it the hell out and move their In Home Streaming into an Android Client.
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Limelight works well, to allow streaming to any device (not just Shield devices), but again needs Nvidia GPU on the PC host as it based on reverse engineering the Nvidia game streaming protocol...

http://limelight-stream.com/index.html
 
LambChop said:
Point out where I said stream games at 4k.
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You intend to play 4k games on the hardware alone? 4k? On that hardware? You do realise that the console is severely underpowered to do 4k at low settings let alone high or ultra right?

It's why i specifically mentioned streaming because I didn't think you actually thought the machine would do 4k gaming well, the things a pup compared to the rigs needed for 4k and even those struggle.
 
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