There's alot of tears here LOL.

So essentially what your saying is that the nvidia shield is mostly irrelevant if you don't have a kepler graphics card ? Thanks for proving my point. 

If it's not a successful gaming/streaming device why bother ? "Niche" is an excuse not a reason. Nvidia has only made more worthless mobile devices. 

No you're just a boring me.

That's what me and Zarx haave been saying. You are comparing it to the Vita which shows how lost you are.

If you don't understand the concept of "niche" and have such a simplistic view of success then you will never have a successful career in business.

No you'll never understand what a successful business means! People get overly mad of why sales = quality. If no one buys your product then you know it's worthless and does not serve a meaningful purpose just like how people think the vita is irrelevant when it comes to being a protable gaming device. BTW I'm sure the CEOs would probably agree with me instead of you. 

Meeting Sales targets is more determinant of success than overall sales. This is why games like Pay Day 2, Etrian Odyssey 4, etc. are considered successes while Resident Evil 6 is considered a failure despite RE6 selling over 10 times those games' sales.  There wasn't that many Shields made in the first place so you can't expect to reach something like the Vita's sales level

That's true however exceeding expectations is even more determinant of a success. See the problem is when you have a huge company like nvidia who throws out the shield to become some meager product we have an issue here because they could have used those resources in developing their graphics architectures more often instead of wasting on a pointless project like the shield. Another issue we have here is that it is not meant to sustain nvidia or do anything meaningful at all. The shield is basically a worthless product because it gives nvidia absolutely NO MORE GROUNDS in the mobile space. The shield has an even more limited market place because it's only available to those unique features who only use the kepler GPU. 

The device did exeed expectations, did you miss the part where I said that they SOLD OUT! and that they were ramping up production? There sales expectations for the device were tiny because it was a niche device for a very limited market sold at a premium.

I'm not sure if you would call selling a few thousand units successful either. -_- (For a big company like nvidia I expected a little more.) 

So you are saying products have to exeed your completly unrealistic expectations to be considered a success?

OK....

I think we are done here

Because personaly when the CEO of a company says a product is a success I think that means a hell of a lot more than you

“Sales have been great. Everything that we shipped so far has sold out and – but we’re just starting to ramp production, we’ve shipped out to our partners only several thousand units, and so it’s still quite early to tell. But we’re expecting to do quite well with Shield,” Huang said during the company’s earnings call.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-ceo-says-shield-is-a-hit/50371.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nvidia-ceo-says-shield-is-a-hit

how could they sell more if they sold out. It isn't a game which you can download relatively easily. it takes physical materials and labor to make it.

Tough crowd we have here.