NVIDIA Portable Game Console announced at CES

[kisamesama]

Wow...
Gaming is really getting some competition.

This may take out the Ouya.

yup I think so too! but it looks ugly tbh lol .. ps vita should allow installation of android or ability to run android games.. the price difference between the minis and android games is sometimes too big and most minis are of poor quality

 

[KingVamp]

yup I think so too!

Do you mean the competition or what I said about the Ouya?

 

[Crimson Ghoul]

So basically the moga controller with a screen? :ok:

 

[kisamesama]

Do you mean the competition or what I said about the Ouya?

ouya

 

[The Masked Man]

Reminds me of fake concept art of a DS.

 

[totalnoob617]

thats the ugliest thing I have ever seen

 

[FireGrey]

looks like an xbox controller and a gps taped together.

 

[Chocolina]

Hate how rapid technology is... I've only just enjoyed my swanky tegra3 equipped tablet for like 2 months and now a new processor suggested to be 10 times more powerful than that is soon to come out?

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I want to see something else then "cut the rope" or "temple run". Android gaming is a good promisse, but until now it is only a promisse.

 

[Count Duckula]

....Someone on that site said that this could possibly work with the Ouya.

But why would you want to when the hardware in this is superior and it has the proper play store by default?

 

[notmeanymore]

I want this. I want it in my hands. It will be my go-to emulation machine. It will be my mobile media center (which my phone can't do as easily as this clamshell beauty). It will be my addiction.

If it's $300 or less (without a plan), it's an instant preorder for me.

 

[Sop]

Hate how rapid technology is... I've only just enjoyed my swanky tegra3 equipped tablet for like 2 months and now a new processor suggested to be 10 times more powerful than that is soon to come out?

Welcome to the world of PC hardware, it's been like this for years over here.

I want this. I want it in my hands. It will be my go-to emulation machine. It will be my mobile media center (which my phone can't do as easily as this clamshell beauty). It will be my addiction.

If it's $300 or less (without a plan), it's an instant preorder for me.

Agreed, considering how bad emulators are on Android at the moment without proper controllers (although there are the JXD tablets, but they just feel like a Wii U clone compared to this, which is an actual controller) this could definitely be worth purchasing.

 

[Rydian]

HEY GUYS!

GUYS!

HEY HEY HEY GUYS!

EMULATION!

 

[DaniPoo]

HEY GUYS!

GUYS!

HEY HEY HEY GUYS!

EMULATION!

That will be sweet as butterflies

 

[KingVamp]

"cut the hope"

D:!!!

But why would you want to when the hardware in this is superior and it has the proper play store by default?

True. I guess it would be for the people who what the exclusives from the Ouya and have this as well.

HEY GUYS!

GUYS!

HEY HEY HEY GUYS!

EMULATION!

Speaking of that, how good would this be for it? n64?

 

[Rydian]

I don't really know. Never messed with anything beyond the SNES on my tablet due to the lack of controls. Might pick up a bluetooth controller some time in the future for my tablet and PC though.

EDIT: Oh wait, I can use my 360 controller to try it out... but I'm lazy. Tegra 3 on that thing (TF201) so it'd probably be an acceptable representation of the power... but then again so would anybody else's device with a Tegra 3 that's not gimped to hell.

 

[Foxi4]

Okay, let's be realistic here:

1. It looks bad, and I mean bad - it goes againts what a portable should look like and sacrifices the comfort of being portable for the sake of looking like a controller with a screen glued to it.
2. It's Android-based - great, can't wait to play all those games I could just as well play on my phone/tablet without having to purchase new hardware at all, unless I want to pair a gamepad with it.
3. The market of consoles is already dominated by Nintendo. Even the Vita, being far superior technologically has issues with surfacing on it.
4. Did I mention that it's ugly and looks like a make-shift console? Like, someone literally glued a controller to the side of a smatphone? Good.

This is one of those products that are supposed to promote the chipset or the company more than anything, I can't see it as a widely-successful device. We've seen such projects from NVidia yearly - remember the Tegra Phone? Never made it into production. They're just making a statement here - "look, our SoC's are good for portable gaming!" - yeah, we already know that, you're great.

 

[DaniPoo]

D:!!!

True. I guess it would be for the people who what the exclusives from the Ouya and have this as well.

Speaking of that, how good would this be for it? n64?

As for n64 emulation. WHO KNOWS!? :S Only thing we know abut it is that it comes with Tegra 4.
It will probably work but then again. nooone knows. It's pointless to even ask this early on...

 

[shakirmoledina]

competition for project fiona. Very nice design and u can play snes, gba, genesis and psx emus on android too.

 

[Foxi4]

This may take out the Ouya.

By the time Ouya is released, the average tablet or smartphone will "beat it", and I can already pair controllers with those - some I can even connect to a TV via HDMI - there's no "need" for an Ouya, as "cool" as it is Infrastructure-wise.

But really, these are aim at gaming,so it is not hold back by unneeded things for gaming like on phones and each these devices are meant to have exclusives.

Exclusives on an Android-based device = gon git hacked tomorrow and ported to smartphones. Seriously. It's an open-source system.