NVIDIA Portable Game Console announced at CES

[Veho]

Just saw a video from CES, involving this device. Bloody hell I'm impressed, he played AC3 from the Steam Store, wow!

The game wasn't actually running on the device, it was streamed from a PC.

 

[Satangel]

The game wasn't actually running on the device, it was streamed from a PC.

Ah that explains a lot, must haven't heard that in the commentary.
Still interesting item, but so much devices coming on the market, going to be hard to distinguish them all!
Surely there will be some big failures in all those devices, looking forward to it

 

[Filipe C Bello dos Santos]

It will be a hell of a expensive emulation handheld
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/38...at-project-shield-will-cost-a-bundle-of-money

 

[AndyM3]

First thing I thought about when seeing this was the Switchblade.

 

[Veho]

It will be a hell of a expensive emulation handheld
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/38...at-project-shield-will-cost-a-bundle-of-money

This differs from the razors-and-razor blades approach, which isn’t just used by Gillette and Schick. Printer-companies use it, as well, making money from highly profitable ink. So do game-console companies, who primarily make their profit from premium games.
This time-honored approach isn’t the one we’re taking with Project SHIELD.

Ouch. Yup, this thing is going to be expensive.

 

[KingVamp]

Close look.

 

[PolloDiablo]

streaming from the PC? they're trying to pull-off a "Wii U"?

 

[Filipe C Bello dos Santos]

One thing that I don't like about this is that all demonstrations are from the pc streaming, OK, this is good if you have a nice pc capable of running games with full graphics. But how about the handheld itself?

 

[FAST6191]

One thing that I don't like about this is that all demonstrations are from the pc streaming, OK, this is good if you have a nice pc capable of running games with full graphics. But how about the handheld itself?

Though I am not inclined to dismiss your point a PC capable of running games is not a big stretch these days and as for "the handheld itself" is it not just a high end android platform?

Similarly if it has got "VNC" at that level then I could definitely see the android/phone/tablet world moving up a notch towards proper laptop killer.