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Post by Dan @ 10:21pm 07/01/13 | 11 Comments
![]() According to a live blog of the reveal event, Project Shield can play "console quality" games on the go, with a 5-inch, 720p Retinal multitouch screen, and a Tegra 4 processor purportedly capable of outputting 4K resolution video over HDMI to an external display. The manufacturer insists that the device runs pure Android with no silly skins, and will offer games from the Google Play store, opening up a very interesting new avenue for Android game developers due to the device's clamshell-attached, dual-analogue stick controller with an Xbox-esque button layout. Additionally, Project Shield will also be able to wirelessly stream games running on desktop PC's with a GeForce GTX 650 or higher GPU, demoed playing games from a Steam library, showing functionality to the PS Vita's remote-play of supported PlayStation 3 games. A 33Wh battery purports to offer five to ten hours of gaming, or 24 hours of HD movie viewing. No pricing has been announced yet, but we'll likely find out soon, as a North American launch is pegged for second quarter 2013. Watch the video below for a shiny render of the device supposedly running real-time game footage, and check out shield.nvidia.com for the full spread. ![]()
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Posted 10:27pm 07/1/13
Posted 10:45pm 07/1/13
The only thing that worries me is the relatively huge heatsink for a mobile chip, makes me wonder if there are going to be heat issues with smartphones and tablets using Tegra 4 in the future.
Posted 10:45pm 07/1/13
Posted 11:25pm 07/1/13
Looks far too specialized to really be practical. I mean when you can buy a tablet that can do a whole bunch of things and plug a controller into it, why would you spend money on something clearly designed to only do one and probably cost as much if not more due to it's complicated nature?
Not to mention you have no control over screen positioning, if you're like me you don't exactly have your hands in front of your face when using a controller, I can only see it as being awkward to use like that.
Posted 12:55am 08/1/13
Posted 12:58am 08/1/13
Posted 10:26am 08/1/13
Wake me when it runs Win8 and I can just load Steam onto it. Would be awesome then.
Posted 10:50am 08/1/13
Posted 10:59am 08/1/13
Yeh but they claim that it can run 'console quality' games via android without a wi-fi tether so it has some grunt under the hood and storage etc.
I gather its not quite beefy enough for a Windows8 install but sometime soon we might see such a thing. And buy the shit out of it.
Posted 11:15am 08/1/13
Posted 12:07pm 31/1/13
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