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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Nvidia announces Shield console, $199, more powerful than Wii U, plus 1080p/60 fps streaming service

Pretty pointless effort by nVidia. While I think $300 tablet is decent offering, Android consoles at $200 price are waste of money, even with a streaming service. Once they can offer sub $100 box with sub 100ms streaming they might have a chance.



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Looks to be really good for the price, hopefully they will market the hell out of it so people knows it exists :)



 

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Kerotan said:
This will give the OUYA a serious run for its money


^ my thoughts as well.

 

The problem is the eco-system.

Its mainly going to be mobile apps and games right? maybe just run at slightly higher resolutions than most mobile phones.... but still.... mobile phone games.

 

No offense to mobile phone games, but they typically arnt of the same quality as real consol games.

Id rather have a real consol, which for me would be a xbox or a ps4.



shikamaru317 said:
anthony64641 said:
are games just being streamed to the console or is it ACTUALLY running them?

The 50+ launch games, including Crysis 3, are all running directly on the console. The streaming serivce is in addition to the native gaming support.

have you more details? it sounds to be bogus



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Shield Portable is pretty awesome, so ill recommend shield products if youre looking into it. I can stream Steam games to the portable inside and otuside of my house. I wont get the console though as i already have a PC but that is pretty nice




       

Hmmm, It seems too expensive for a streaming box but too weak/with not enough native content to compete in the console space.

They should have either just done a full on streaming box for $99 with mobile specs or a full on Steam console with specs far higher then PS4 and a hefty pricetag $499.



Disappointed. Thought this was a steam machine for a minute. It seems to just be an expensive streaming box?



I'd consider this console if it had discs. I don't like the digital crap.



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Tachikoma said:
Captain_Yuri said:
This is quite interesting. I wonder how much support this will have! Also, 1080p 60fps cloud subscription service. How interesting that Nvidia is doing this too

About as much as the original shield and shield tablet.

Lots by nvidia, very little by actual users.

You don't know that. Nvidia could also offer it little support.