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Nvidia introduces new gaming console
DIR By: MsRowdyRedhead
Date: January 7, 2013, 1:16 pm
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Nvidia introduces new gaming console
By Steve Peterson
Nvidia introduces new gaming console
Mon 07 Jan 2013 7:25am GMT / 2:25am EST / 11:25pm PST
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Portable Project Shield plays Android games, streams PC games
Update: According to the geforce.com website, Shield will ship
in Q2 of 2013 for the US and Canada, with a worldwide rollout to
follow. Pricing and final specs will be announced closer to
availability.
Nvidia just held their CES press conference, announcing a new
gaming console, Project Shield, that may just change the gaming
industry. Project Shield is a portable gaming console built
around the new Tegra 4 chip (also just announced) running
Android, with an unusual form factor. Essentially, Project
Shield is a standard game controller (looking very much like a
Xbox 360 or a PS3 controller) with a 5 inch HD screen attached.
Project Shield not only runs Android games, it can also stream
games from any Windows PC powered by an Nvidia GTX GPU,
accessing titles on its Steam game library from anywhere in the
home.
According to Nvidia, "Project Shield combines the advanced
processing power of Nvidia Tegra 4, breakthrough game-speed
Wi-Fi technology and stunning HD video and audio built into a
console-grade controller." It can be used to play on its own
integrated screen or on a big screen, and on the couch or on the
go. Project Shield can instantly download Android games,
including Android-optimized titles available on Nvidia's
TegraZone game store. It can also be used as a wireless game
receiver to a nearby PC equipped with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 650
GPU or higher.
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"Project SHIELD was created by NVIDIA engineers who love to game
and imagined a new way to play," said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder
and chief executive officer at NVIDIA. "We were inspired by a
vision that the rise of mobile and cloud technologies will free
us from our boxes, letting us game anywhere, on any screen. We
imagined a device that would do for games what the iPod and
Kindle have done for music and books, letting us play in a cool
new way. We hope other gamers love SHIELD as much as we do."
Huang showed Project Shield running games like Assassin's Creed
III and Need For Speed: Most Wanted, streaming them from a
nearby PC and routing the video through Project Shield to a 4K
TV (that's a TV running at four times the resolution of a 1080p
HDTV, or 3840 x 2160 resolution). The process showed no apparent
lag, and the gaming proceeded smoothly during the demo. Huang
noted that right now you'd need to connect an HDMI cable to
tProject Shield and the TV, but 'soon' you would be able to
stream video wirelessly from Project Shield to a properly
equipped TV, similar to Apple's AirPlay technology.
Project Shield includes the new Tegra 4 chip, which Nvidia is
billing as 'the world's fastest mobile processor.' The chip has
a custom 72 core GeForce GPU and the first quad-core application
of ARM's most advanced CPU core, the Cortex A-15. The integrated
5-inch, 1280x720 HD retinal multitouch display is 294 dpi.
Nvidia also promises that its Tegra 4 with Direct Touch
technology gives it touch responsiveness that is a more
consistent, accurate and smooth-flowing touch input experience
than a standard touch device.
Nvidia is not neglecting audio, saying that Project Shield
"provides fidelity and dynamic range never before available on a
portable device, through its custom, bass reflex, tuned port
audio system -- with twice the low-frequency output of high-end
laptops." Other features include 802.11n 2x2 MIMO game-speed
Wi-Fi provides high-bandwidth, ultra-fast wireless for seamless
game streaming, and the latest version of Android Jelly Bean.
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Mark Rein, vice president and co-founder of Epic Games, said:
"With Project Shield, Nvidia brings an uncompromising,
high-performance console experience to mobile devices. Amazing
games including Real Boxing and Hawken, which utilize the latest
Unreal Engine technology, look fantastic on Project Shield. This
is just the beginning, and we're truly excited to see what more
Unreal Engine developers will do with so much horsepower in such
a compact gaming device."
Bill Wagner, chief production officer at Meteor Entertainment,
said: "Coming from the openness of a PC platform, we love how
accessible Project Shield is, and the flexibility it gives
gamers everywhere. Project Shield gives us the cutting-edge
ability to bring a huge free-to-play PC game like Hawken to the
handheld gaming audience."
Being able to play PC games anywhere in the house with a
good-quality controller, and put those games on a TV screen when
you like are both compelling features. It's worth noting,
though, that many PC games are not controller-friendly, and
really require a keyboard and a mouse to be played well. Nvidia
may have solutions in mind for such games, but nothing was said
about that during the press conference.
Nvidia made no mention of two of the most important features of
Project Shield: the release date and the price. It's likely that
Nvidia plans to release the device in the next quarter or two; a
later release would give competitors plenty of time to come up
with strategic responses, and no sensible company would want to
make it easy for the competition.
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Pricing is critical, of course, to the potential success of
Project Shield. The marketplace is crowded with consoles,
handheld consoles, smartphones and tablets all trying to appeal
to gamers. A Project Shield at $100 might sell incredibly well;
the same device at $500 would likely sit on shelves. Given the
hardware capabilities outlined, Project Shield's price will
probably lie somewhere between these two extremes. The exact
price point, and the amount of marketing and developer support
behind the device, will make a big difference to its ultimate
fate in the marketplace.
While many questions remain, this announcement from a company
like Nvidia should be cause for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to
give some thought to their console strategies and how they might
respond if Project Shield proves popular. Nvidia will have to
put some serious resources into Project Shield if they expect to
make headway against current and future consoles. One thing's
for sure: The console wars of 2013 are already off to an
interesting and unexpected start only a few days into the year.
Get ready for a wild ride this year; whatever happens, it won't
be boring.
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Re: Nvidia introduces new gaming console
DIR By: Nodnarb162
Date: January 7, 2013, 2:14 pm
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I think it looks kind of ridiculous :P
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