| jonathanalis said: would be awesome to see nvidia shield features on switch. PC stream for AAA third parties games on steam when on home, and GG. But valve was not on the partner list, and also that wouldnt match with switch concept of unpluging and continue playing on the go... |
This is where the Shield and Switch appear to be diverging.
I may have misinterpreted the existing PR materials, but I don't see any indicator that the Switch was designed as a streaming, satellite device, unlike the Shield. By itself, the Shield is a bit limited without the power of one of Nvidia's desktop graphics cards doing the processing for dedicated Windows games. Without that, it was essentially just an Android device, which is fine, but that more or less put it on par with Ouya and we all know how well that worked out.
I could be wrong, but if the Switch is essentially a Nintendo Shield, about the only thing Nvidia needed them for was to have Nintendo IPs on their hardware, and I see no indication that was what Switch was about. It's Nintendo's hardware, powered by Nvidia.
