Nvidia Shield Update Brings 1080p 60FPS Streaming

[exfileme]

The December Software Update has arrived.

Nvidia Shield Update Brings 1080p 60FPS Streaming : Read more

 

[iceclock]

eggcellent thanks

 

[g-unit1111]

OK my meter for wanting the Shield went from "meh" to "must have 10/10". Although I need to get an NVIDIA GPU first. :lol:

 

[nukemaster]

Good to see this update.

 

[ohim]

I see a lot of people going crazy about this, but i don`t get a thing, you get a powerful PC at home with a huge LCD monitor and everybody is going crazy about streaming games to a little device with a small screen ??

 

[mmohon]

Can they just make a cheaper solution that just streams games to my TV please? Let me bring my wireless keyboard and mouse into the living room. I'd buy a new video card and that box in a heart beat.

 

[g-unit1111]

I see a lot of people going crazy about this, but i don`t get a thing, you get a powerful PC at home with a huge LCD monitor and everybody is going crazy about streaming games to a little device with a small screen ??

It's easy to take a Shield places. Can't say the same for a full or mid tower gaming rig. :lol:

 

[ohim]

Places where ? In your own home ? since you need a hell of a wireless transmitter for that thing. From my point of view this thing is absolutely useless... unless you`re one of those dudes that needs to game while pooping .

 

[Durandul]

If you live by yourself, yeah this is almost pointless. If you have family however...

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

I don't seem the usefulness of this outside of a physical controller for Android games, which mostly have on-screen controls that won't go away when you're playing, making the experience mediocre at best.

I see no purpose in streaming your PC games unless you can do this outside your house, which I strongly doubt.

I also don't understand the idea of hooking up an HMDI cable to a hand-held controller so that you can play PC games on your TV. Sure, this is more convenient than moving your PC if needed, but it's hardly ideal. If I want to play at TV level response times streaming 1080p through a 360 controller I'll play 360, and it won't cost as much(don't worry I still love my PC).

I think this is a solution without a problem. The only possible real use I can see is playing Android games on my TV, which I can already do in 1080p from my phone using either an HDMI adapter (iOS) or MHL adapter (Android phones) and a Bluetooth controller... Without spending another $250.

Seriously, please tell me if I'm missing something?

 

[iceclock]

its a nich market, if the price was lower to 200$ might be interesting.

its like a portable mini extension of ur pc, interesting yes, worth the price? not shur

 

[knowom]

I think shield is neat as a android hand held device and the whole pc streaming this is more of a add on that's a neat future more than anything else.

I wouldn't really use it personally and the device itself is priced too high sort of though not really tablets and phones aren't any cheaper or much cheaper in most cases.

It would probably make a great controller to connect and pair via bluetooth to your PC if you had a bluetooth dongle however.

 

[Jordan Nwokolo]

Based on Previous Nvidia statment, I think it safe for me to say PC and SFF PC are Far Superior to any Android gaming Consoles and we should Forget everything about Shield and it platform 😀

 

[enewmen]

I don't seem the usefulness of this outside of a physical controller for Android games, which mostly have on-screen controls that won't go away when you're playing, making the experience mediocre at best.

Seriously, please tell me if I'm missing something?

I don't think it's about usefulness. It's more like an exercise or tech demo showing what's possible. So it's OK if it doesn't sell well. Other companies can take the high-tech mobile performance and make something useful from it.

 

[teh_chem]

I see a lot of people going crazy about this, but i don`t get a thing, you get a powerful PC at home with a huge LCD monitor and everybody is going crazy about streaming games to a little device with a small screen ??

I think the actual number of people "going crazy" over this is very small. It's just that nvidia pumped a lot of money into the hype-machine for this.

Shield is heavy to use for a proper gaming device. I would also guess that only a fraction of a percent of people who game on their computers have compatible hardware AND games for actual game-streaming.

I think the only real reason nvidia is working on the stream-from-desktop tech. is to prolong the use of their desktop GPU hardware as long as possible before 'mobile' tech actually takes hold. I think mobile processing is already significantly close to addressing the processing requirements for a huge amount of 'PC gamers' (for example; taking Steam survey results, a huge number of Steam users have computers with CPUs or GPUs that are at least 5 years old, if not older).

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

I don't seem the usefulness of this outside of a physical controller for Android games, which mostly have on-screen controls that won't go away when you're playing, making the experience mediocre at best.

Seriously, please tell me if I'm missing something?

I don't think it's about usefulness. It's more like an exercise or tech demo showing what's possible. So it's OK if it doesn't sell well. Other companies can take the high-tech mobile performance and make something useful from it.

Now that would make sense.... if they offered it as a hardware module that you could license, rather than a proprietary retail product.

Now, what would be very interesting is to see Android game developers offer games that really took advantage of this hardware, though I still thing the device itself would be a hard sell with all of the smart phones out there.

If they are able to shrink this down into a small chip or board that could be added inside of a tablet or phone and offer a simple bluetooth game controller to support it, this would make more sense.

We have smartphones with quad-core ARM CPU/GPUs, on-board real system RAM and plenty of storage, video output... there is no need for another device.

 

[iceclock]

well the streaming option is nice, especially if it could stream to ur tv tru the android device lol.