Project Shield looks like it is a bit clunky to hold, clunky to pocket, extra breakable hinge screen, and has to run a full android OS instead of a fully optimized console OS.
To be honest, I think this will be great for emulators around the house, but It seems useless for everything else that the 500,000,000+ android devices on the market already do.
A form factor similar to the Vita would have been better, but I think both Vita and Project Shield could be smaller and benefit from being more portable.
Really though, I feel like plug and play devices like the GBA SP got taken for granted (Keep It Simple Stupid). You plug in the games, and you play. I would love to buy a current hardware, high battery life, single use gaming device nowadays.
With multifunction devices, I feel like I waste to much damn time on trying to use janky control schemes, waiting for installs/updates/patches/downloads/loadscreens/etc., getting distracted using pointless apps, etc. It is like I get some sort of technology ADHD brought about by the nature of the device itself.
Hmm... I might just start carrying around my GBA SP again and actually play games (Wish GBA had sleep mode though). :/
