The original version, and it's no longer being manufactured, it's just the old stock being sold.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/01/live_blog_watch_nvidias_ces_2017_keynote_address_-_live
Nope, old stock sold out sometime last year. See the Shield forums for reference. The tablet has since been re-stocked.
If this is the case, it might make up for the Shield TV rehash. But if it's more of a non compete claus that limits the Shield, and the Switch still uses the X1, I'm going to be real upset with both companies.
X1 is a maxwell SoC. Nvidia's blog talked about a pascal SoC in the Switch. So nope, Switch doesn't use X1.
Ah, so it is.
All of the (limited) marketing we've seen so far places an emphasis on the portability angle (especially in the reveal video). The Shield TV target market overlaps with a part of the Switch target market, but the Shield Tablet and the Switch are basically the same thing and are in direct competition.
The Shield Tablet is cumbersome to use as a gaming console and its battery drains faster than you can charge it during gameplay. You can't play with it over long periods. Switch (supposedly) doesn't have these problems and neither the Shield TV. The marketing of the Switch of course showed off the portability aspect, because else it would have been boring and "just another Nintendo console". It's just marketing. I predict people who buy the Switch will use it docked to the TV more than use it portable, especially if the rumors are true that games perform worse when the Switch is undocked. But yeah, lets say we agree to disagree
I'm guessing the Shield TV doesn't have problems with the battery life or portability because it's not portable
and we don't know if the Switch will or won't have the same type of problems with the battery. Shield tablet reviews say the battery lasts around 4 hours when gaming on the go, and the way Nintendo's handhelds are going that's the battery life we can expect from the Switch as well According to extensive market research (The marketing of the Switch of course showed off the portability aspect, because else it would have been boring and "just another Nintendo console". It's just marketing. I predict people who buy the Switch will use it docked to the TV more than use it portable, especially if the rumors are true that games perform worse when the Switch is undocked. But yeah, lets say we agree to disagree
) 46% of the people see the Switch as a portable console, while 29% think of it as primarily a home console (25% see it as a banana; market research is not an exact science). It remains to be seen how Nintendo and game developers will treat it, and I would not put it past Nintendo to release a home-only box at a later time, which would be a competitor to the Switch TV, but from the replies and comments (and if we ignore the banana fetishists), two thirds of the market think it's a portable console (and will use it as one) and don't compare it to the Shield TV. Of course this is massively unreliable but it supports my view so I'm sticking with it 
While I have no reason to doubt you and you're probably telling the truth, "My uncle works at Nintendo"
Well according to the specs only the regular 16GB Shield TV has been "updated" as in it was made smaller and there is no more an sd card slot and microUSB port. The 500 GB Shield TV Pro is literally the same. No reason at all for existing Shield owners to "upgrade".
My stepdad works at Nvidia Labs here in Oregon, and is a chip engineer. He was given a Shield Portable (retail unit) as a " thank you" for working on the project. He was part of the Tegra 4 dev team.
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