Looks interesting, but it kinda kills the idea of portable gaming for me if you have to carry the controller too.
Looks interesting, but it kinda kills the idea of portable gaming for me if you have to carry the controller too.
If you could get the GameStream to work with AMD cards I would be interested. Being nVidia card exclusive means a no from me
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So, after making a point that this "review" seemed like an advertorial 3 days ago, I've just seen it jump to the top of the front page, with no discernible update to the content. I'm guessing nVidia's cheque cleared?
Pleiades (25-07-2014)
This looks like an interesting idea but I just don't think it'll make much of an impact in an already crowded market. But yeah, I'd like to know more about it, that article doesn't really give enough to draw any real conclusions.
Does anyone know if the Shield Portable is ever going to be officially released in the UK?
There is a couple on Amazon, fulfilled by Amazon, but it doesn't feel 'right' when the company hasn't officials launched it in this country.
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NVIDIA has no plans to launch the Shield Portable in the UK, especially now that the Shield tablet has been launched.
But it's useful to know that if you get one from the US, it works fine over here :-)
You can't use nVidia grid without some hoop-jumping and you wouldn't want to because of the latency involved, but that might change when the UK grid comes online for the tablet
Edit: only thing you'll need is a micro USB charger with a UK plug
Am I missing something, Can I not just get a windows tablet, intall steam and stream my games to it just my AMD graphics card with pretty much any game on my steam list?
Pretty much, yep. However, the nVidia cards mentioned as being compatible have an in-built hardware encoder to facilitate streaming. In theory, this makes it a little easier to stream over slower (read: wireless) networks, but in practice, my 5-year-old laptop can stream wirelessly just fine through Steam, from both AMD and nVidia rigs.
This has definitely peaked my interest now that i have read through it. Ill definitely wait for a few more reviews but as a constant traveller, my 10" Toshiba is a bit weighty and has patchy results in games (not that i play them that often). The stylus being good is a pretty big deal for me though
DR (29-07-2014)
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