News - Nvidia (Project) Shield launch date and price announced

[Jasp]

How would that be setup??????

Trust me it doesn't work half as well as you would think, the stream can't deal with high amounts of bandwidth so craps out. Also can't play anything like a game as it doesn't work on a smartphone at all. What it does work well as is a mobile media player.

[FRISH]

I'd rather buy a vita which is more powerful and cheaper...

[Jonj1611]

Trust me it doesn't work half as well as you would think, the stream can't deal with high amounts of bandwidth so craps out. Also can't play anything like a game as it doesn't work on a smartphone at all. What it does work well as is a mobile media player.

Hi mate, thanks for the reply, yes I knew that which is why I asking the person who originally posted what I was quoting in my reply(phew lol). As I have never seen a setup like that that actually works but they seemed to :/

[ET3D]

Because you think sitting next to her playing on a handheld console is a good cure to her getting upset when you abandon her to go and play video games!

This girl here says your an idiot

Are you married? If so, I pity your husband. If not, well, that's understandable.

Guy is trying to stay near his wife so that if he notices that she stops watching TV or if she wants to talks or needs some help he's around. What more can you expect from him?

[Pleiades]

So still nothing.

Yep, that made sense, well done

Edit: You do know Wii U is backwards compatible, right? D'oh.

[3dcandy]

poor NV people are more interested in flaming each other about relationships than their overpriced hardware...

[cheesemp]

poor NV people are more interested in flaming each other about relationships than their overpriced hardware...

Whoever said I was a NV guy. I've always bought ATI in the past - I just happen to be running a GTX 285 that was a freebie from a guy at work. Last NV card I purchased was a geforce 4MX!

Regarding spending time with my wife - We've only been married 7 months so I do spend pretty much every hour at home with her - as you can see on my raptr profile I've dropped from about 2 hours a day average to about 1 hour a week PC gaming since then. My wife would love to have a way of playing games that also allowed me to also spend time with her (And i'm not talking all night Jenny_Y8S - just an hour or so while something rubbish is on TV - just as i'd do with my phone currently). This is a cheaper option than a gaming laptop and would also allow me to also keep the gaming PC going for the nights when she's out. I don't understand why people cannot see that some people would have a use for this.

[Abhish_Korah]

Its priced way too expensively.. I would rather go for the razer edge.. even if expensive it has the style and hardware

[3dcandy]

Whoever said I was a NV guy. I've always bought ATI in the past - I just happen to be running a GTX 285 that was a freebie from a guy at work. Last NV card I purchased was a geforce 4MX!

Regarding spending time with my wife - We've only been married 7 months so I do spend pretty much every hour at home with her - as you can see on my raptr profile I've dropped from about 2 hours a day average to about 1 hour a week PC gaming since then. My wife would love to have a way of playing games that also allowed me to also spend time with her (And i'm not talking all night Jenny_Y8S - just an hour or so while something rubbish is on TV - just as i'd do with my phone currently). This is a cheaper option than a gaming laptop and would also allow me to also keep the gaming PC going for the nights when she's out. I don't understand why people cannot see that some people would have a use for this.

Kerching..hook, line and overpriced games console...

[Chadders87]

The android functionality aside since most android games are either ****e or expensive freemiums, or both, this would be an attractive device for me.

Converting your decent and moddable PC games into handheld varieties via streaming sounds good to me. Sometimes I just want a pick up and play casual gaming session so being able to use this to play on the sofa or in another room without being hunched in front of the computer away from the missus.

Only downside for me is the screensize and lack of spare programmable buttons for macros. Otherwise I'd be happy to part with £230 for this (eventually).

Edit: I actually have a wirelesss mouse / keyboard, and my monitor is on a long cable reaching to a side table by the sofa already. This fits my needs to a T, but it would be nice not to have to relocate the monitor every time I want to play in the same room as my partner.

Edit #2: Sod it, what I really want is a laptop devoid of all parts except the screen and bluetooth keyboard, which can connect to the PC as an additional monitor.

[cheesemp]

Kerching..hook, line and overpriced games console...

I've got 293 games and counting on steam (http://steamcommunity.com/id/cheesemp/games/?tab=all). If I got a games console such a vita I can't play any of those on it and i've only saved a £100. I'd rather have access to my games library and the large number of indie games I own thanks. As I've said above this is really just providing me a cheap alternative to a gaming laptop (which incidentally I'd prefer but £229 I can possibly find, £700+ I can't).

[TooNice]

I wonder how well PC games will work on this device. Well, I've never labelled people for how choose to spend their money, and I won't start now. That said I don't expect this device to be sold by truckloads because it's not cheap enough to be an impulse buy (for many), and provide a solution under fairly restricted conditions.

[hiyayhi]

meh, I could either have one of these or a new graphics card...
I know what I would choose (not this)

[docbrown121]

hardware doesn't matter, it looks like no publishers will be making games for it anyway iven if it could may some blockbuster games really well.

[docbrown121]

hardware doesn't matter, it looks like no publishers will be making games for it anyway even if it could may some blockbuster games really well.

[dcwt2010]

I'd rather buy a vita which is more powerful and cheaper...

I'm pretty sure the tegra4 is more powerful...