NVIDIA introduced its own gaming console SHIELD

Quite unexpectedly for many professionals and amateurs, the company Nvidia introduced its own game console, which may well become very popular this year. The device, as you might expect, is based on the Tegra 4 platform (there was already news on this platform on Habré ). The console has several interesting features.

First, it is a productive device with a 5-inch display (720p resolution), two stereo speakers, USB ports, mini-HDMI, a headphone jack and a slot for microSD memory cards. There is also a wireless module Wi-Fi 802.11n 2x2 MIMO. The operating system uses Android 4.2 OS (Jelly Bean). The developers have pre-installed the Shield service (thanks to which the console got its name), with access to the Tegra Zone.
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The most interesting thing is that the device allows you to play both Android games and regular PC games. How is this possible? The fact is that SHIELD can work with a desktop PC by sending the necessary data for rendering to the desktop (if there is one) with a video card of the GeForce GTX 650 class and higher. This console has common features with services such as OnLive and Gaikai, only all the data is sent not to the “cloud”, but to the local desktop. Of course, this is also a minus - after all, not everyone who wants to acquire such a console has a powerful enough personal computer.



By the way, you can play not only on the console screen, but also on any other display or TV, provided you connect this TV to the console. The image on the TV is transmitted with a resolution of up to 4K (Ultra HD).



The game console will be on sale not earlier than the second quarter of this year. It is not yet known how much it will cost. But I think a lot.



Via nvidia