At yesterday’s conference at the GDC, Nvidia has shown its stationary console SHIELD, Android TV, Tegra X1 and supported a resolution of 4K . In addition to the games available on Android, on the run for more than 50 titles optimized PeCetowych Nvidia hardware. This list, of course, will increase over time, and for the impatient option is still streaming games with clouds, so Nvidia service called GRID.
In addition to streaming the Clouds, for users of PCs with GeForce planted is still available local option streaming PC games on the console. A similar solution is proposed even Valve (Steam Link), and Sony (the possibility of streaming games on Vita PS4). Similar, but paying $ 199 (ie less than PLN 1000) for stationary console Nvidia still get all the benefits offered by Android TV, which will change our TV in the smart TV, entertainment center, and a voice assistant, with where you can talk about the weather.
This is only the beginning
Nvidia thus chose a very interesting direction. Relatively cheap equipment, with powerful graphics chip, operating under the control of Android, which can move the most AAA games PeCetowych , offering to play in the Cloud and local streaming from PC? What do you want more? I think Nvidia has a few ideas for Shield.
Think about it for a moment. Have acquired a lot of experience when it comes to the production of equipment with a green little robot on board. Also you produce the fastest graphics chips currently available on the mobile market, used by, among others, Google (Nexus 9 sitting after Tegra K1), and the only ones that you have such a good relationship with game developers that on your Android tablet can play, for example, in Half-Life 2, and Borderlands. If I thought it would be fun to have a smartphone, which could play PCs titles (when connected to a TV, or while we’re fantasizing, using either the built-in projector), similar ideas have to be addressed in the headquarters of Nvidia.
Nvidia Shield smartphone?
Impossible? How about information from December 2014, which seems to have gone unnoticed, from which we learned that Google is in talks with Nvidia Tegra about K1? What exactly was it? The project Ara – ie smartphones folding blocks. Google wants to Tegra K1 has emerged as a separate system that we could join the modular smartphone. These building blocks your phone with this cool thing. In addition to the extra layout (with bundled Nvidia Shield) for such a device can, for example, to attach a controller for games. Or mini-projector.
This handheld makes sense. When I’m not playing for him, serves as an ordinary smartphone (you can even remove the Tegra and in its place put something else) – and this is what smartphones have contributed to the fact that the handheld is so unpopular today. But hybrid , which, depending on our needs may change at any regular phone, or in the coolest, portable games console? If something appears on the market, certainly, as a player, I will consider changing flights.
All the above text is of course just my wishful thinking. Ara Project is indeed this year to hit the consumer market, but Google wants to start by testing their modular toys in Puerto Rico. So we can probably safely assume that the first models of the blocks will be rather “low-endami”, created with the aim of developing countries.
Nor do we know whether Nvidia agreed to cooperate in the framework of the Project Ara. Perhaps instead of playing in modular solutions, Nvidia will create a traditional smartphone for gamers. Anyway, in 2013, those who were in Barcelona can play the prototype phone Nvidia Phoenix . Sony has already tried this approach with the Xperia Play, which turned out to be a dud, but no phone Sony did not have access to infrastktury Shield, which Nvidia is developing very dynamically. I think it’s part of a larger plan, in which there is somewhere a whole chapter on smartphones with Tegra. I just hope that they will have capacious battery. And a good camera.
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