I think being able to natively run 100s of games on steam puts it well above the PSVita support wise, it wasn't like the PSV got ports of relevant titles like God of War acension, GT6, Elderscrolls, Final Fantasy, GTA5 etc. It got a horrible COD game with a meta of 40, the worst AC made thus far and a piss poor port of Borderlands.

In anycase I'd like to think Nvidia have realistic expectations regarding the platform, its not a mainstream device and is likely just exists to introduce the Tegra X1 to the market. 

I can't help but think of Nintendo's next handheld when looking at these specs.

Having a handheld equivalent to the Wii U just makes too much sense.

Actually Nvidia is very profitable because they dont take losses on their products.  There is 3 shield models, and this will be the 4th for a reason.  These products dont have to sell like XB, PS, etc to be successful

do you kno what profit  shield made and does it include RD.

I think something more like 0.35-0.4 TFLOPS for the handheld and 1 TFLOP for the console is more along the lines of what Nintendo is looking at. Easy to scale games up and down that way (540-720p for the HH, 1080p for the home version). 

But add in a sizable embedded or stacked DRAM buffer for better memory bandwidth than X1. Nintendo loves their embedded RAM even the New 3DS has 10MB of it. 

Im not sure anything like that has released to the public.  It makes sense why they stopped stocking the Shield Portables now though.  Last month they sold out and havent restocked since

The reason I bought it up was i found quite a few articles with stuff along the line of , Nvidia pleased with Shield despite being a  loss leading product, it has done it's job etc  , so they tend to paint a picture of a product that is serving it's purpose and making money isn't a priority at this point  , this is fine but nobody seems to know exactly what those parameters are in regards to the Shield.