NVIDIA Portable Game Console announced at CES

[The Real Jdbye]

It's over, the 3DS is finished!

Except this will never have as many exclusives, or as many proper non-casual games as any normal dedicated gaming console.

It might support services like OnLive, but you can't get the required upload speeds to have games streamed over the internet from your home PC at any acceptable framerate/resolution.

Is 10mbps enough?

 

[ferofax]

I will cry and scratch myself until I bleed if this can run games like Skyrim or Dark Souls or some such uber master race game that I cannot play anywhere else.

Yay, I guess, since that happening is beyond the realms of remote possibility because it's Android. The only Android game that interests me right now is Ingress, and that's not even nearly a game as a social experiment that requires GPS and data plans.

 

[Scott-105]

This is interesting news, but that console is ugly.

 

[Veho]

Is 10mbps enough?

You have a 10Mbps upload at home? Well, the vast majority still doesn't.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Hey guys, do you think this thing could emulate gamecube isos? That would so awesome.

Never.
But PS2 might be possible, which would be awesome.

You have a 10Mbps upload at home? Well, the vast majority still doesn't.

True, but high upload speeds are becoming more and more available and it won't be long until they're available in the vast majority of areas all around the world.

 

[Veho]

True, but high upload speeds are becoming more and more available and it won't be long until they're available in the vast majority of areas all around the world.

True, in about ten years or so we'll all have decent upload speeds.

 

[Count Duckula]

I can see it as a low-cost Android gaming device, yes... but that market is already dominated by Chinese knock-off products. In my opinion, the Ouya should've been an infrastructure for games, not a console - it should've been made compatible with Android devices of all-sorts and should provide an alternative for the Google Play store and the PlayStation Store (For PSCertified) with exclusive titles and organised multiplayer - the first is always welcome, even if hackable, the second is a glaring issue of Android as an open-source system. Think of it as "Steam for Android"... But I digress.

I suppose it's a cool "gadget", but not really a competitor on the market compared to the "Big Boys" coming from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. It's optional, but definitely not an "alternative".

But forming sufficient real agreements with developers/publishers to profitably sell a competitive gaming ecosystem (that people have to opt into) is much harder than shipping existing mobile tech without a display in a small cube casing. Especially with funding up front

 

[yuyuyup]

If it doesn't fit in my pocket or up my ass, it's not a portable system.

 

[PolloDiablo]

Could they make it more ugly?

 

[Wizerzak]

Never.
But PS2 might be possible, which would be awesome.


True, but high upload speeds are becoming more and more available and it won't be long until they're available in the vast majority of areas all around the world.

You're forgetting that:

Norway / Sweden / Hong Kong / South Korea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rest of world >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> UK

 

[TripleSMoon]

Y'know, I love Android, but I'm really starting to feel that it's becoming a problem for gaming. What do we have with the big three? Sony, MS, and Ninty make their own consoles with their own OS, and get tons of triple A titles and exclusives and the like. Especially with handhelds, which are generally full of almost exclusively exclusives (pun not intended). But now we got Ouya, Gamestick, and Project Shield which are all nothing but fancy, creative ways of giving Android traditional gaming controls. And I don't think devs are going to look at that and be, "hey, i want to make a game specifically for THAT system!" They're going to look at the much broader market of android phones and tablets, and just make touchscreen-optimized games that they know will likely sell much more. What do you guys think?

 

[Gahars]

It seems like everyone is eager to jump into a race that was never actually called.

I mean, is there really consumer demand for these consoles? I doubt most console/PC gamers are going to jump ship and latch onto something like this (or its competitors), and people only familiar with smartphone gaming probably won't care.

It looks nice, sure, but that can't Shield them from the whims of the market.

 

[the_randomizer]

Too late, it's been asked already.

Why do people want to emulate the N64 anyways? The console has 387 games altogether and most of them are horrible.

"Why do people want to emulate the Snes anyways?" See, I can ask similar questions to yours.

The N64 has all bad games and none of them are remotely enjoyable? You must have had one helluva childhood. Surely, there must be an award ceremony for someone like you.

Jet Force Gemini
Mario Party 1, 2 and 3
Ocarina of Time
Bomberman 64
Bomberman 64-2
Super Mario 64
Wave Race 64
Mario Kart 64
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Tooie
Goldeneye 007
Blast Corps
Hybrid Heaven
Mystical Ninja 64
Goemon's Great Adventure
Gauntlet Legends
Hydro Thunder
Vigilante 8
Rogue Squadron
Star Wars the Battle for Naboo
Star Wars Episode I: Racer

Yep, all bad games.

Guess that makes Elmo's Number Adventure or whatever it's called the best-selling game, right up there with the N64 port of Duke Nukem.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Because people totally want to play single player Goldeneye 007 on their handheld.

 

[FAST6191]

You're forgetting that:

Norway / Sweden / Hong Kong / South Korea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rest of world >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> UK

Though I am not inclined to change much on that list I dare sake a look at a bunch of the other former colonies will paint a slightly different picture and much of the time they pay a pretty penny for what they have as well ( http://go.bigpond.com/broadband/?ref=Net-Header-ProductServices-Internet as I probably should source something).

 

[Gahars]

The N64 has all bad games and none of them are remotely enjoyable?

Let me stop you right there, because that's not what he said. You might want to reply to what people argue, not what you imagine they argued.

Jet Force Gemini
Mario Party 1, 2 and 3
Ocarina of Time
Bomberman 64
Bomberman 64-2
Super Mario 64
Wave Race 64
Mario Kart 64
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Tooie
Goldeneye 007
Blast Corps
Hybrid Heaven
Mystical Ninja 64
Goemon's Great Adventure
Gauntlet Legends
Hydro Thunder
Vigilante 8
Rogue Squadron
Star Wars the Battle for Naboo
Star Wars Episode I: Racer

So it had 23 good games out of the 387 in its library? What does that say about the other 364 games?

This is why it pays to understand what a person is arguing. If anything, you're providing credibility to his claim that most (key word here) of the games were not good.

 

[Janthran]

NVIDIA announced a new handheld (tentatively named 'Project Shield') at the Consumer Electronics Show, which began this week in Las Vegas.

That's pretty cool, but you could get the same effect by gluing an Xbox controller to a Kindle Fire.

 

[KingVamp]

Really? This is where the thread going? smh

When I mention n64, I meant all the games under it as well. I was just putting it there to see how far it could go up.
Not to start a console debate.

 

[Geren]

I don't know, I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but I'm starting to think that the gaming market, is becoming way too flooded with consoles that can play games...
We have this, we have something from valve coming, we have Ouya, WiiU, PS3, 360, PC, even our phones do it. It's getting a little bit ridiculous IMO. Not everybody needs to have a console that can play games. This... I actually hope this bombs and doesn't sell at all. I love nVidia, but I don't want them in the console market at all. The less there are, the better.

Soooo, videogame crash when ?

 

[Foxi4]

"Why do people want to emulate the Snes anyways?" See, I can ask similar questions to yours.

The N64 has all bad games and none of them are remotely enjoyable? You must have had one helluva childhood. Surely, there must be an award ceremony for someone like you.

Great, that's a lot you came up with, considering the fact that the console has a library of whole 387 titles. And it's not like the ones you picked were all univerally considered great - I find a lot of titles on that list disputable at best.

I didn't compile a list of bad titles on the N64 for anyone, I merely said that the console has little to offer because it does have little to offer and that's that. If "good" games don't immediately spring to my mind aside from the first-party titles which I don't even enjoy all that much, it means the console's got a poor library - good games are memorable.

I enjoy Pokemon Snap, Stadium's, Turok 2 (despite the horrid draw distance, but I played it on the PC) and yeah, there are good games on the N64, just infinitelly less than for example on the PS1 which has almost five times the amount of games all-in-all. If it bothers you that I said "most are horrible", I can rephrase that to "there are very little good and memorable games on the platform", will that make you happy?

And just so you know, my childhood was awesome - I had a PC, a Gameboy Colour and a Famiclone - who would possibly want more?

The problem I have with the N64's library is that when I look at "Best games on the N64" lists I see the same titles over and over and over again. It's impossible that it's all the same freaking demographic every single time, so that means that those are really the cream of the crop.