Nvidia Shield Sales are 'Great,' Production Ramping up Soon

[The Milkman]

Yup the new one. And yup with the Wii U Pro Controller and I hate it

Maybe try it with a Mobo before you spend 300 on what is essentially the same thing?

 

[ElYubiYubi]

Maybe try it with a Mobo before you spend 300 on what is essentially the same thing?

I tried it really. Cuz I really wanted to play all those games. But my phone get too hot and it drain the battery like crazy.

Also some games didn't run too well on it.

 

[DSGamer64]

>Sony releases a quad-core, powerful handheld with all the knick-knacks you can think of (including 3G in the 3G version) for $250. People complain that it's too expensive and refrain from buying it.
>NVidia releases a quad-core, powerful Android-based handheld for $300, it plays all your favourite smartphone games and does some streaming. Apparently sells.

I don't think I understand gamers all that well. Funny aside though, I don't really forecast a bright future for this one, but we'll see how it fares.

To be fair, we are talking about PC players who buy it, not the average run of the mill gamer. The Shield caters towards the PC crowd, not the console gamer crowd, and one has proven that there isn't a huge market for two competitors over the course of two decades while the other is an untapped market that couldn't exist without new technology.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

To be fair, we are talking about PC players who buy it, not the average run of the mill gamer. The Shield caters towards the PC crowd, not the console gamer crowd, and one has proven that there isn't a huge market for two competitors over the course of two decades while the other is an untapped market that couldn't exist without new technology.

I highly doubt it's PC gamers who buy this. I would love to know which PC gamer would rather stream games to a tiny screen than play on their billion monitor set up with a keyboard and a mouse.

 

[Joe88]

You can have all the horsepower in the world and you're still only going to get smartphone-level video games for this system for the reason I've mentioned above - there's infinitely more Android smartphone users than there will be Shield users. If you think that you're going to get superior versions specifically polished for the Shield or some amazing exclusives then I'm afraid you have another thing coming.

just to add, I think there was only a few exclusive tegra enhanced games
and most of them were cracked to run the extra tegra stuff on any device (dead trigger)

 

[IBNobody]

I highly doubt it's PC gamers who buy this. I would love to know which PC gamer would rather stream games to a tiny screen than play on their billion monitor set up with a keyboard and a mouse.

I would!!!

It depends on the game, really. I wouldn't play an FPS on it because I'm part of the PC-Keyboard-Mouse-Master-Race, but I could play a number of PC MMO's or console ports on it.

I've been playing the FFXIV beta, and it has super slick gamepad controls. I'd love to play that on the Shield.

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Evil,

You never told us what video card you also bought.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

I would!!!

It depends on the game, really. I wouldn't play an FPS on it because I'm part of the PC-Keyboard-Mouse-Master-Race, but I could play a number of PC MMO's or console ports on it.

I've been playing the FFXIV beta, and it has super slick gamepad controls. I'd love to play that on the Shield.

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Evil,

You never told us what video card you also bought.

At last someone that doesn't trash-Talk the Shield!

Didn't buy any graphics card, just an APU with enough RAM to support it. I will Crossfire it later though.

 

[IBNobody]

At last someone that doesn't trash-Talk the Shield!

Didn't buy any graphics card, just an APU with enough RAM to support it. I will Crossfire it later though.

You'll need an nVidia Kepler GPU (GTX 650 or higher, not mobile) to run PC streaming. That may throw a wrench in your AMD/ATI plans.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

You'll need an nVidia Kepler GPU (GTX 650 or higher, not mobile) to run PC streaming. That may throw a wrench in your AMD/ATI plans.

No. I don't plan to Stream PC games.


BTW it jus arrived and its awesome! The speakers are monsters!

 

[IBNobody]

No. I don't plan to Stream PC games.

BTW it jus arrived and its awesome! The speakers are monsters!

......... So the only reason why you got this is to play Android games ?!?!?!?!?

 

[ElYubiYubi]

......... So the only reason why you got this is to play Android games ?!?!?!?!?

Yup. Emulators on the go too

 

[ElYubiYubi]

Using ONLIVE on the NVIDIA Shield!

Can't wait for NVIDIA Grid!!

 

[raulpica]

NVIDIA Shield is probably the ultimate console for emulators. All the awesome portable emulators developers are on Android right now, so if you don't want to be stuck with 3-years old PSP emulators, Android is the way to go.

I'm also one that WILL use the Game Streaming function. As I'm usually too tired when I come back from work to sit on front of my PC to play one hour of Skyrim, but I'd gladly play it when in bed, and that's where Shield comes in.

Don't say "download streamers" as those don't work as awesomely as the Shield's internal streaming function does.

BTW, I'll probably wait for Shield 2 as Tegra 5 should pretty much destroy the competitors GPUs as it has Kepler (Gaming PC grade stuff) cores in it, and it'll be awesome to emulate on it

 

[IBNobody]

Using ONLIVE on the NVIDIA Shield!

Can't wait for NVIDIA Grid!!

Dude, you're killing me.

You'll play streaming games from OnLive, but you have no interest in buying an nVidia video card to play games streamed from your own PC? What do you think all those OnLive games are being run on? Farms of PS3's? They are PC games.

You already bought the most expensive part of that streaming setup. What keeps you from taking the leap? It can't be ATI/AMD loyalty because you bought into the Shield hype.

 

[Nathan Drake]

NVIDIA Shield is probably the ultimate console for emulators. All the awesome portable emulators developers are on Android right now, so if you don't want to be stuck with 3-years old PSP emulators, Android is the way to go.

To be entirely fair, those three year old PSP emulators still work like a charm. Sure, it won't do N64 emulation, nor DS (which nearly everybody that uses this forum owns some version of), but I don't think either of those are worth buying a $300 device over just because you get some buttons. Really, anybody that has a useless Android phone laying around can use that as an emulation machine easily with the purchase of a $30 controller add on. Even my Droid X can do some amazing things still, and that hasn't been a relevant phone for a couple of years now. Are you saying that it's a smarter investment to drop $300 on a Shield versus $30 on a bluetooth controller/stand attachment? No matter how you slice it, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives to buying a $300 Android device with a built in controller where emulation is concerned.

For streaming, hey, some of us are more comfortable with certain set ups. I'm cool gaming in bed with my laptop propped against my leg (how I browse GBAtemp much of the time), but I get other people would be happy with a slightly more comfortable set up.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

Dude, you're killing me.

You'll play streaming games from OnLive, but you have no interest in buying an nVidia video card to play games streamed from your own PC? What do you think all those OnLive games are being run on? Farms of PS3's? They are PC games.

You already bought the most expensive part of that streaming setup. What keeps you from taking the leap? It can't be ATI/AMD loyalty because you bought into the Shield hype.

No thanks

 

[Thirty3Three]

No thanks

I've just read through this whole topic, and I've come to the conclusion that you don't really have a good grasp on anything electronic.


Have fun with your glorified android device. For $250, I have a device that will play all PS1/2/3/4 games from anywhere in the world.

 

[raulpica]

To be entirely fair, those three year old PSP emulators still work like a charm. Sure, it won't do N64 emulation, nor DS (which nearly everybody that uses this forum owns some version of), but I don't think either of those are worth buying a $300 device over just because you get some buttons. Really, anybody that has a useless Android phone laying around can use that as an emulation machine easily with the purchase of a $30 controller add on. Even my Droid X can do some amazing things still, and that hasn't been a relevant phone for a couple of years now. Are you saying that it's a smarter investment to drop $300 on a Shield versus $30 on a bluetooth controller/stand attachment? No matter how you slice it, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives to buying a $300 Android device with a built in controller where emulation is concerned.

For streaming, hey, some of us are more comfortable with certain set ups. I'm cool gaming in bed with my laptop propped against my leg (how I browse GBAtemp much of the time), but I get other people would be happy with a slightly more comfortable set up.

Try playing Starfox on the SNES emulator. Or Shin Megami Tensei, and enjoy that garbled/mangled fusion scene

PSP emulators aren't updated anymore, you can't expect more emulation accuracy - and while there's still people using snes9x around, I value it, as I want something nearer the real experience.

Ugh, try using SNES9xEX (the accurate version) on something lower than a $300 Samsung Galaxy S2, you'll have frameskips everywhere.

And frameskips SUCK. Also, the PSX emulator is pretty much playable at 0 frameskip only on a Samsung Galaxy S3 or equivalent. The others will lag. The PSX emulator included in the PSP, while great, doesn't have a lot of functions modern emulators have (like savestates) and they also have the factor that you can directly use ripped games without converting them (I hated having to find fitting icons and stuff for POPstation).

 

[IBNobody]

No thanks

Then can you explain why you're planning to buy ATI/AMD graphic cards for your rig? Because quite frankly, your purchases don't make much sense. Why would you consider buying ATI/AMD graphic cards when you bought an nVidia shield that works best with nVidia graphics cards?

Did you buy an ATI/AMD chipset motherboard that prevents SLI or something when you were buying all these computer parts, not realizing that you'd be gimping your shield?

 

[Foxi4]

Buying a ATi/AMD GPU only ever made sense to me if the rig in question was AMD-based in the first place since they do work well in tandem. In case of Intel-based rigs though, nVidia is and always has been the way to go, and seeing that those GPU's now appear to work together with the Shield as well, there is absolutely no logical reason as to why a Shield user would not get a GeForce.