Nvidia Shield: Hands-on Impressions With the Final Hardware

[anthonyla65]

Get a Wii U and stream the games to your game pad. Can't deny that first party Nintendo games are pretty good and will receive more support in the long term compared to an Android device.

The shield + GTX650+ GPU would be quite expensive just to stream games and play Android games imo.

 

[alidan]

I take overly-positive review results with a giant grain of salt.

And I am highly speculative of the real-world PC game streaming capabilities of this; I wonder if the streaming connection is via a local network (i.e., through a router) or via wifi-direct? Leading to the question of whether the streaming is practical for real-time fast-paced multiplayer like FPS's.

I am excited about the idea of streaming a desktop game to a handheld device, but that would not convince me to buy this. Nor would having access to android/tegrazone games, of which none have impressed me.

This is a sub-niche product in an already small gaming niche market. They've got an uphill battle, and the price isn't helping them out much, no matter how cheap the games might be.

the totalbisket did an interview with them a while ago and they were demoing the thing off a convention router, he has video of it, if you ever been to a convention, you know why that is significant.

 

[TheMadFapper]

All of the games listed out above are extremely linear and short except for FF3. I would not pay for any of them. I HATE games that push me along a level without my input: "Hit A here! Hit B here!" Umm...let me do what I want, thanks. I don't care if the graphics are nice. It's a mobile game, work on the content first.

 

[renz496]

Get a Wii U and stream the games to your game pad. Can't deny that first party Nintendo games are pretty good and will receive more support in the long term compared to an Android device.

The shield + GTX650+ GPU would be quite expensive just to stream games and play Android games imo.

just hope there will be more games for Wii U. i heard some third party publisher are putting their hope down with Wii U. the recent one i think about Ubisoft not going to make exclusive title for the console because of poor sales of the console itself

 

[capt_taco]

That's great, but for most people, Android gaming means playing Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, and their phones are just fine for that. That's also who most Android developers write games for. For serious gamers, there are already a ton of consoles and handhelds that are a better value. I don't see this going anywhere. Good concept, wrong market, maybe.

 

[fball922]

Everyone is talking about using a hack to get it to work with AMD gpus, but I think the better question is the hack to get the streaming working with any tablet I choose!

 

[renz496]

Everyone is talking about using a hack to get it to work with AMD gpus, but I think the better question is the hack to get the streaming working with any tablet I choose!

We got Splashtop for something like that i'snt it? It just doesn't work like Shield streaming because with Sheild streaming make use specific hardware in kepler based gpu

 

[teh_chem]

Everyone is talking about using a hack to get it to work with AMD gpus, but I think the better question is the hack to get the streaming working with any tablet I choose!

We got Splashtop for something like that i'snt it? It just doesn't work like Shield streaming because with Sheild streaming make use specific hardware in kepler based gpu

True, but splashtop is poor for graphically-intensive/rich tasks; even on the most-optimized networks, there is significant lag. And although Splashtop came a long way since their first release, streaming from your desktop to tablet is still very choppy.

 

[samuelspark]

The streaming feature seems amazing.

 

[renz496]

That's great, but for most people, Android gaming means playing Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, and their phones are just fine for that. That's also who most Android developers write games for. For serious gamers, there are already a ton of consoles and handhelds that are a better value. I don't see this going anywhere. Good concept, wrong market, maybe.

even if it's a phone but the SoC inside have more power to run something that are much complex (graphically) than angry bird. the power is there so why not take advantage of it? to play it on the phone or on some android 'console' are down to preference anyway. this people that making android console might think they can make profit from it. will it succeed or not that will be open for discussion.

 

[icemunk]

Cute idea. It'll be a niche market likely. It's nice you can steam borderlands, but I wonder how many actual games you will be able to stream to this device, as trying to use a gamepad in place of a keyboard and mouse doesn't work in a lot of games. Who knows..