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Nvidia Project Shield Announced

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'The tech world has gotten itself into a lather over the bombardment of announcements coming out of Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s one that’s relevant to us, though: NVIDIA’s Project Shield. While it may look like an HD screen bolted to a parody of an Xbox controller, the Android powered device is also capable of streaming your PC game library.

Powered by the also-announced Tegra 4 mobile chip, Shield promises a full Android gaming experience. That may sound a bit rubbish, especially if, like me, your Android device is almost exclusively a platform for running Canabalt. Still, it means the handheld will be able to play the upcoming Hawken Android, as well as the newly announced ArmA Tactics, a turn-based ArmA for tablet devices.

But perhaps the most interesting aspect of Shield is its ability to hook into Steam for local network streaming through Big Picture mode. NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, showed off the streaming during the presentation, playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Assassin’s Creed 3 with reportedly little to no lag. The downside is it requires a Kepler-based graphics card inside your rig, meaning you’ll need a GTX 650 or better to push pixels towards the device.

Project Shield offers a 1280×720 screen, but can output to a standard 4k TV. It’s expected for release in “Q2″, but there’s currently no word on pricing. In the meantime, you can see the Shield’s website for details.

A shiny new PC-playing toy. Any takers?'


http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/01/07/n...ed-handheld-with-steam-big-picture-streaming/
 
It won't be successful, people won't give up their big monitor screens to be relegated to a small screen to game on for the sake of just sitting on a couch, if you really want that, then align your gaming computer in the vicinity of a couch and get an Xbox 360 controller or a platform which i saw the guys use in the live FireFall beta for your keyboard and mouse and play.
 
Interesting tech, but I don't see it becoming a major commercial success. When I want to play PC games I go sit in front of my PC...
 
If i play games on my computer i play them at my computer with the big screen infront of me.

I don't see the point in having my computer stream a game to a hand held device with a 5" screen.

If i want to play games from my couch i would fire up the xBox and play on the TV.

I can see the merits of this as an independent hand held games machine, like those that Sony and Nintendo already have, but thats about it.
 
More expensive than an Xbox I bet, seems like a waste of time.

If you want to sit in your living room, simply have your PC hooked up to the TV AND a monitor, then just switch between them if you want to play single player xbox controller enabled games. Hell people have TV's in their room with a bed, like me :D
 
Project Shield offers a 1280×720 screen, but can output to a standard 4k TV. It’s expected for release in “Q2″, but there’s currently no word on pricing. In the meantime, you can see the Shield’s website for details.

Well thats one way of making the poor memory bus on the 6xx series cards look good running at that resolution.
 
It looks terrible and I really cannot see it taking off. In fact I reckon it'll bomb and Nvidia will have wasted a shed load of cash on it already, hence launching a stillborn product. Someone come back here with the stats in a few months and prove me wrong!
 
It looks terrible and I really cannot see it taking off. In fact I reckon it'll bomb and Nvidia will have wasted a shed load of cash on it already, hence launching a stillborn product. Someone come back here with the stats in a few months and prove me wrong!

Oh i don't know about that, i think it will help their discrete GPU sales.

To a significant number of people this will be the must have gadget, and as its tied to Nvidia GPU's people will buy Nvidia GPU's just to get this must have gadget.

A significant number of them will end up collecting dust after a few weeks of use when they realize playing your Desktop games on it is a novelty that quickly wears off.

But it will have done its job of sort for Nvidia's coffers regardless.
 
I, like I am pretty sure many others, don't like being tied to a brand for something.

It's why I didn't get a 3D Vision 3D screen.

It's why I don't care for physx, even if I can use it currently (still haven't though)

What if, in future, it comes time to upgrade? Even if I found this system useful and used it often, it would mean being unable to move from nvidia... no purchase.
 
I, like I am pretty sure many others, don't like being tied to a brand for something.

It's why I didn't get a 3D Vision 3D screen.

It's why I don't care for physx, even if I can use it currently (still haven't though)

What if, in future, it comes time to upgrade? Even if I found this system useful and used it often, it would mean being unable to move from nvidia... no purchase.

Most people don't care, hence Apple not being dead, however there are really two markets for this, people who don't have a console but want to game downstairs on a tv or around the house on a small device.... people who have a PC won't trade a keyboard, mouse and proper screen for a several hundred dollar device that pushes that same content onto a worse controller and tiny screen, its infact moronic.

The second lot are mobile gamers who want a more powerful gaming device on the move..... however it won't play any games that other android devices can't, and won't fit in your pocket making it not very mobile.

So will people buy a device that costs what must be several hundred dollars(I'm thinking minimum £200, maybe £300, its got more hardware than a £200 phone in, better screen, more battery, latest cpu/gpu), for plane trips and travel if and when they want to take a relatively large device with them?

You already take your android/apple phone everywhere so have a gaming device everywhere you ever go, will you spend the same amount again on a second device to do the same thing with a cheap knock off of a 360 controller strapped to it that is vastly bigger?

Which market does this appeal to, mobile, its an infinitely worse option than whats already available, its less mobile for a start. Home users, ties in with computer and kepler+ meaning.... you have a gaming PC..... you want to play on a tv.... buy a console, better all around and exclusive games that aren't crap(MS or Sony library and content systems with them, media devices for the TV, everything basically). So what, you buy it if you want to game while you're on the bog.... again something your phone can do anyway.
 
Most people don't care, hence Apple not being dead, however there are really two markets for this, people who don't have a console but want to game downstairs on a tv or around the house on a small device.... people who have a PC won't trade a keyboard, mouse and proper screen for a several hundred dollar device that pushes that same content onto a worse controller and tiny screen, its infact moronic.

The second lot are mobile gamers who want a more powerful gaming device on the move..... however it won't play any games that other android devices can't, and won't fit in your pocket making it not very mobile.

So will people buy a device that costs what must be several hundred dollars(I'm thinking minimum £200, maybe £300, its got more hardware than a £200 phone in, better screen, more battery, latest cpu/gpu), for plane trips and travel if and when they want to take a relatively large device with them?

You already take your android/apple phone everywhere so have a gaming device everywhere you ever go, will you spend the same amount again on a second device to do the same thing with a cheap knock off of a 360 controller strapped to it that is vastly bigger?

Which market does this appeal to, mobile, its an infinitely worse option than whats already available, its less mobile for a start. Home users, ties in with computer and kepler+ meaning.... you have a gaming PC..... you want to play on a tv.... buy a console, better all around and exclusive games that aren't crap(MS or Sony library and content systems with them, media devices for the TV, everything basically). So what, you buy it if you want to game while you're on the bog.... again something your phone can do anyway.

I agree with most of what you said. I cant really see what niche this is trying to fill. However, maybe the US market is different than the UK.
 
I agree with most of what you said. I cant really see what niche this is trying to fill. However, maybe the US market is different than the UK.
Its stated as having been 5 years in development.

5 years ago we had a very different market,
MobilePhones could not play mainstream games, nor could tablets which barely existed then...

5 years ago this thing would have filled a gap in the market, that market no longer exists.

Its just yet another way to play games on the go, in a market flooded with such devices, all of them better than this.
 
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