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While we touched on this below, it was buried in the running commentary from NVIDIA's pre-CES press conference tonight in Las Vegas. NVIDIA announced the Shield gaming device, with its fully Android power ecosystem. It is shown below and resembles an bulky console controller with a fip-up screen. It is powered by NVIDIA's new Tegra 4 silicon. I have stayed away from calling it a mobile game console, because it would be better described as a mobile PC for gaming from what I have seen. The NVIDIA Shield was demonstrated running two PC game titles that were being run on a connected GTX 680 based desktop PC. The GTX 680 was doing the game rendering and streaming it to the Shield, which was then in turn outputting the gameplay to a 4K HDMI attached TV. What was surely a grand finale, NVIDIA showed Shield accessing Steam's Big Screen application, and while NVIDIA did not show an actual Steam gaming running, it was explained that there would be no problem doing so, and having it rendered on PC and streamed to your Shield and then displayed on just about any device in your home or elsewhere. NVIDIA has its somewhat limited Shield site up and running, complete with "Notify Me." Damn skippy.
Streaming from the desktop PC is a bit narrow at the moment as laid out by the specifications. As noted I would suspect this to broaden, actually quite a lot, as the product gets closer to hitting the store shelves which is expected in Q2'13.
It seems as though the screen equipped on the Shield will be very nice for a native Shield experience as well. Tegra's image quality has always been impressive as well.
Streaming from the desktop PC is a bit narrow at the moment as laid out by the specifications. As noted I would suspect this to broaden, actually quite a lot, as the product gets closer to hitting the store shelves which is expected in Q2'13.
System Requirements for PC Game Streaming*
GPU: NVIDIA® Kepler™-based GeForce GTX 650 (Desktop) or
GTX 660M (Notebook) or higher
CPU: Intel Core i5 or equivalent or higher
System Memory: 4 GB or higher
Software: GeForce Experience™ application and latest GeForce drivers
OS: Windows 7 or higher
Router: Router: 802.11a/g/n
(Recommended: 802.11n Dual Band / MIMO Router)
*System requirements are preliminary and may be updated closer to product availability
It seems as though the screen equipped on the Shield will be very nice for a native Shield experience as well. Tegra's image quality has always been impressive as well.
5" Retinal Display
SHIELD flips open to an integrated 5" 1280x720 HD multi-touch display. With 294 dpi and 921,600 pixels, SHIELD has the highest resolution and pixel density of any handheld gaming device. In addition, Tegra 4’s Direct Touch technology gives SHIELD touch response three times faster than other touch devices.
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