Nvidia's Shield Console -- A Hint At Nintendo's Fusion Future?

[Scisca]

Soundwave said:

Scisca said:
Hmm... So you guys are saying Nvidia is getting close to offering us a PS4-level performance in a handheld? That would be something.

To tell the truth, if Nvidia released such a handheld with a 1080p screen and that would support games on Steam... I'd pick it up without hesitation and ditch both Vita and 3DS.

To be honest even if the graphics weren't *quite* on par with the PS4 ... I'd personally buy a Fusion version just because I'd be able to play the same game at home or on the go if I really wanted to. That would be quite hard to resist. They'd absolutely dominate Japan too if they went that way. 

Maybe they won't, or maybe ... y'know I've said before with low cost tablets and cheapo games eating away the budget/casual gamer demo, maybe the better play here is to go upmarket. 

There's no PSP/Vita or Microsoft handheld likely to worry about in the future, so Nintendo can contrast themselves to the iPads/cheap Android tablets by offering much meatier gaming experiences that can be shared for home play on a whim too. That proposition at least makes some sense and differniates them in the portable space. 

To be honest, I don't really care much about what Nintendo does. Sure, something like that from them would be interesting and I'd probably get it, but I'm more interested in a portable device capable of running my Steam library. That would be the thing! Imagine a PS4 level handheld/tablet with a controller running Steam and your whole Steam backlog. That would be sick, I'd get it day 1 and never look back. I guess it'd take for Valve to put SteamOS on such a device or MS releasing something with a Windows, but hey, a man can dream