BNR: While I’m honestly not the biggest fan of the Shield’s design (it looks like the folks behind the N-Gage never stopped working), I’m curious as to how well it’ll sell in today’s market. The trouble is, it’s not exactly easy to sell a handheld with beefy innards- while at PAX, I saw hundreds of people carrying around the Nintendo 3DS, Streetpassing and gaming and having a good time. As for Sony’s Vita, I think I saw about four or five. It’s not a bad console by any stretch of the imagination, but right now I couldn’t name five great Vita games to save my life. It’s not that they aren’t there, it’s just that barely anybody knows about them. The 3DS, meanwhile, has been doing comparatively well, both in hardware and software sales. Why? Because people know it exists. What does any of this have to do with the Shield?
Starting in mid-February, a planned update to the NVIDIA Games app will begin rolling out to SHIELD owners. With this update, the GameStream feature will no longer be available. SHIELD users can continue to use GameStream until that time.
For sometime, I'd been contemplating getting a Shield to replce my Steam Link hw as the Shield is a more capable 4K/60 device for streaming. Happy they notified us before I finally decided to pull the trigger on getting one.
The firmware update 8.2.2 for Nvidia Shield with some interesting changes is now available for download. It is now possible to use the controllers of the PS5 and Xbox Series X on the device. Further details can be found in the message.
It's nice to have the support. But without the unique functions of the DualSense I wouldn't go for it unless you already have a PS5 laying around. As there are many other controllers compatible with the system that will also cost much less.
Just ordered my Shield T.V (new tube looking one), coming tomorrow, it should pair nice with my pc. This is great news as I have both PS5 and Xbox controllers no need to buy another controller.
Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service is currently in beta, but the company hopes it will compete with Google Stadia to change the future of gaming. See how it works.
dont know that there is another handheld?
but to me there are more than 5 great vita games for me.. that i can play.. ;_;
maybe you are just chosey when comes into games..(^__^)y
(sorry for my grammar, not native english (^_-)y)
I think there is room in the market for an android hand held with TV out functionality (maybe not at this price though...)
At $350, it could do well. It's nice to see some companies jump into the handheld race. Also, dual sticks design is much appreciated IMO.
Only for PC gamers who have an expensive gaming rig. But how many of them are there in the world compared to console gamers?? This is expensive. its nearly enough for me to buy a minimun-medium range PC
It depends on what games are available that are dedicated exclusively to the system. No one's going to be buying this device solely for playing casual touch-screen titles like Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja on it XD might as well just buy a cheaper smartphone if your only going to be playing those lol
Shield will also depend on how successful Tegra 4 will be.. & how many of it's games will make full use of the game-pad & triggers.
I would like to see this handheld being successful.. but I believe it will only be successful when lots of dedicated games are available for it & when NVIDIA lowers the price a lot.. Only then will we see people actually buying this beast.