We’ve been seeing a lot of gaming hacks in recent history. With RAZER building their FIONA gaming handset, Valve dwelling into a gaming console for the living room, it looks like graphics chip manufacturer NVIDIA is also developing their own console hardware. And it looks like a XBOX controller with a 5″ clamshell screen.
Project Shield looks a bit odd, but it’s packed with a lot of power to run the top of the line games of this generation. That’s because although it runs on a vanilla version of Android, it sports a Tegra 4 processor. It also has the ability to stream games from your Steam library — games that normally require a GeForce GTX 650 to run.
Specs:
4k resolution support
microSD expansion
Gaming over WiFi
Tegra 4 graphics processor
5″ retinal multi-touch screen (294ppi pixel density)
Dual control sticks (ala XBOX 360) to support games running on Steam
Availability: Q2 2013
