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Nvidia’s Shield has a price and release date

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Since it as first announced, I’ve thought that Nvidia’s foray in to handheld gaming, The Shield, is dumb. Essentially an android phone (sans the actual phone bits) duct-taped to a controller, the Shield will allow you to not only play android games, but your own PC games streamed to its tiny screen. As a device it is, as far as I’m concerned, wholly pointless bordering on ludicrous – and now it’s got a price to match.

Nvidia has announced that the Tegra 4 –powered  The Shield portable gaming system will be released in June – and will cost $359. That’s more than a PlayStation Vita; more than an Xbox 360; more than a PlayStation 3 and more than a brand new Wii U – to play the same games you can play on your cell phone right now.

Oh, but what about that remote play of your own Steam library? that’s got to make it worthwhile right? that depends on you. For starters, you have to be within range of your PC, because it works on an ad-hoc Wifi connection – plus you’ll need at minimum a Kepler-based GeForce GTX 650 to support the feature. It does have another feature that’s pretty cool; it’ll allow you to beam games from your Steam PC to your TV without having to lug your hardware around – but I’m not sure even that makes it worth $359.

What do you think? It’s actually cheaper than I had expected – but it’s still too damned expensive, and too niche a product to really take off. Are you on board to buy a Shield?

Last Updated: May 15, 2013

36 Comments

  1. umar bastra

    May 15, 2013 at 09:04

    Before anything ….. EPIC HEADER!! lol

    I do not see the point of this mahine … there are phones that are Tegra powered…And Android does not yet have a deep library of High end games. No way in hell would I pay that much for this. would rather buy a vita and play persona 4!

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    • Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

      May 15, 2013 at 09:13

      Just get S4

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      • umar bastra

        May 15, 2013 at 09:30

        Exactly, this really seems like a waste of money. it’s certainly is cool to stream pc games but, I don’t feel it’s enough

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        • Illuchne Mancera

          May 15, 2013 at 09:48

          Agreed… but you could also just get the S3 or Note2

          Reply

      • Rince da Ref Lvl2

        May 15, 2013 at 09:36

        How can I comment on this without trolling or being negative?

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        • Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

          May 15, 2013 at 09:39

          On the S4? What’s wrong with that?

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          • Rince da Ref Lvl2

            May 15, 2013 at 09:48

            No. this topic…

        • Illuchne Mancera

          May 15, 2013 at 09:44

          With great difficulty?

          Reply

          • Rince da Ref Lvl2

            May 15, 2013 at 09:49

            haha, this sir, is a trap. And I shall not be coaxed into it…

  2. ALKi1234

    May 15, 2013 at 09:04

    Reminds me of nokia N-Gage….if nividia got the cash to spend y not give it a go.

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  3. CODDAMIT

    May 15, 2013 at 09:12

    R3300. Not even Verimark can sell this.

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    • Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

      May 15, 2013 at 09:13

      Good thing you are out for the week 🙂

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      • CODDAMIT

        May 15, 2013 at 09:53

        LOL my name alone warrants a trolling ban.

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        • Illuchne Mancera

          May 15, 2013 at 10:03

          LOL upvote!

          Reply

          • CODDAMIT

            May 15, 2013 at 12:47

            🙂

          • CODDAMIT

            May 15, 2013 at 12:47

            🙂

  4. Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

    May 15, 2013 at 09:12

    Geoff, on fire with the headers this week!

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  5. Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

    May 15, 2013 at 09:18

    Also, if you do not have WiFi to PC, then that fee needs to be included

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  6. LordCaptainAwesomeness

    May 15, 2013 at 09:22

    Still not interested…

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  7. Matthew Figueira

    May 15, 2013 at 09:22

    Its so ugly…. it should have a pillow held over its face.

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    • Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

      May 15, 2013 at 09:28

      That warrants disqualification I’m afraid
      Just becoz you are MattyFeeg

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      • Rince da Ref Lvl2

        May 15, 2013 at 09:37

        Agreed, that is a fail…

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        • Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

          May 15, 2013 at 09:40

          Nah, its borderline, but not trolling

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          • Matthew Figueira

            May 15, 2013 at 09:46

            ^_^ I read a few comments yesterday, where did this no trolling week or something come from? 😛

          • Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

            May 15, 2013 at 09:51

            From me, and it started Monday, and its super fun 😀

          • Matthew Figueira

            May 15, 2013 at 09:59

            Damn and I failed already? I WAS NOT TROLLING! MERELY WISHING DEATH 😛 *covers EK’s face with a pillow*

          • Admiral Chief Combat Engineer

            May 15, 2013 at 10:47

            Really?

            Damn MattyFeeg, why?

          • Matthew Figueira

            May 15, 2013 at 15:04

            Because I’m about to play Dota, and I know that my daily “SLUT” comment is coming up xD

          • Illuchne Mancera

            May 15, 2013 at 10:03

            I’ve been out since yesterday already… 🙁

          • HvR

            May 15, 2013 at 10:12

            I think I was disqualified 2 weeks ago.

          • Illuchne Mancera

            May 15, 2013 at 10:16

            LOL! You must have troll’d pretty hard to get disqualified for 2 straight weeks

    • Lourens Jordaan

      May 15, 2013 at 09:46

      It’ll be crying itself to sleep on its huge pillow.

      Reply

  8. DaxterZA

    May 15, 2013 at 09:59

    Waste of money IMO…

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    • DrKiller

      May 15, 2013 at 11:07

      Agree, I’ll rather get a PSP then.. and play Tekken 😛

      Reply

  9. Trevor Davies

    May 15, 2013 at 10:35

    I think people are misinterpreting growth in mobile gaming due to more people having smart phones, and mobile games being easily available, as equivalent to people wanting to switch to mobile gaming. How many people really want to carry around a dedicated portable android gaming machine?

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  10. FoxOneZA - X-Therminator

    May 15, 2013 at 12:29

    Don’t varsities in the East teach Design/Aesthetics 101? I’m an Nvidia fan but that looks o.0

    Reply

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