NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Box Game Review / Popzara Press

A serious contender in the set-top gaming market and easily the best Android TV box yet.

Full review by Cory Galliher on Popzara Press

[porkChop]

I have a brand new Bravia Android TV, and while it's an amazing TV, there aren't many Android TV-compatible apps right now. The OS also has some glitches, like when you click left or right a few times in the UI the screen will glitch for a second and move your cursor/selector back a spot.

[SniperControl]

This thing is bloody amazing, i bought it mainly for watching movies on with Kodi, it fits perfectly well into my Home Cinema setup, it is pretty powerful as well with a Tegra 1 GPU in there, puts media players twice the price to shame.

The only thing that bugs me at the moment, is the inability to close apps, you have to either do a restart to close them all or actually go into the app settings and force close the apps individually, not ideal, a massive oversight on Google's side.

Oh, and for game streaming from another PC, the DS4 works perfectly plugged into the Shield via USB, i hate the X1/360 shaped pad that came with it.

[uth11]

That's because the Android design philosophy is that you shouldn't have to close apps. The OS is supposed to manage them properly.

Of course I'm sure we've all encountered apps that behave badly *cough* Skype *cough*

[jasonismoney]

This is my favorite purchase in several years. And I own a high-end gaming PC, a PS4 and an Xbox One. My favorite feature is definitely Gamestream - streaming great-looking PC games to the TV in my living room. Mine works great with my PC on wifi, however, I am using an AC router on a 5G connection. If you don't have that, you would likely need to be connected with a LAN cable.
The controller is, in fact, about as good as the 360 controller, which to me, is amazing. The only other controllers I've enjoyed as much are my DS4 and my Dreamcast controllers.
My only complaint would be Nvidia's support. Occasionally an update comes out with a bug (currently none of us can Google Cast [i.e. Chromecast] anything) and good luck getting a solid answer out of Nvidia on when a fix is coming.
For 200 bones, this is a GREAT purchase, especially for anyone looking to stream their PC games to their TV.