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Nvidia Confirms Shield Pro-console with 500GB
An Nvidia employee has confirmed a Pro edition of Nvidia's streaming Shield Console, to be released in May close to Computex. The console will come with Android TV in the Pro as a normal version with Tegra X1-soc.
The Pro edition will get 500GB version has been confirmed by ManuelG, an Nvidia employee active here on our forums. It's also noted that the console will support Netflix, and if it can do Ultra HD that will come in handy for a lot of people. The regular Shield console will get 16GB of NAND capacity. The Pro version was rumored after it appeared and disappeared real fast on amazon.
You should not expect any further differences other than storage capacity in-between the regular and Pro model. As stated both streaming consoles will run Android TV and work with the GRID streaming service. These boxes will get a Tegra X1 soc with four Cortex A57 and four Cortex A53 cores. The embedded GPU is Maxwell based with two smm units and a total of 256 stream/cuda/shader processors.
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#5077655 Posted on: 05/21/2015 11:36 PM
Now if this works with any controller, say a G27 wheel, I will definitely buy one and stream my racing games to the living room and sell my living room rig.
Because you think it has no purpose doesn't mean others think the same. I for one will be buying one. I don't care about the 500GB version, mine will be used for DVD/Blu-Ray streaming with Kodi, and Nvidia GameStream to my TV.
Now if this works with any controller, say a G27 wheel, I will definitely buy one and stream my racing games to the living room and sell my living room rig.
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#5077657 Posted on: 05/21/2015 11:36 PM
Oh, I get it - but it's hard to call one of their latest games The Witcher:2 'new'.
I agree it won't be a huge success like Xbox or Playstation, but this isn't just for old games, the whole point of this console is to use the Nvidia Grid streaming service which streams new and old games.
Oh, I get it - but it's hard to call one of their latest games The Witcher:2 'new'.
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#5077874 Posted on: 05/22/2015 08:22 AM
Stream from your PC, stream from GRID, and play games are the gaming purposes. But I think it's good to have something like this for storage. Great for multimedia purposes(video, audio, pictures). Lower powered compared to other PC's easily. Even more some of the games they are porting such as Crysis 3 already takes a lot of space on a PC, so imagine what it'll take on this guy.
Ah, so they are putting that disk space into the tablet because they want to INSTALL games on there, now I see. I'm not sure this makes sense since it would make that grid and my own PC somewhat obsolete (just in single games cases), but I see the reason behind it now.
It all depends on the cost of the console.
Say the 500gb console is $200, that undercuts the Xbox One and PS4 with a big difference in price.
Smart TV's aren't always smooth, or reliable, and services are always stopped and not supported for Smart TV's very quickly.
But Crysis 3 is still a demanding title, and even more so on an ARM platform.
Somehow I don't think the 500GB shield would cost 200$, last time I checked the 'normal' Shield tablet sold for more than 350€ here. I guess it will be more like 450€
Stream from your PC, stream from GRID, and play games are the gaming purposes. But I think it's good to have something like this for storage. Great for multimedia purposes(video, audio, pictures). Lower powered compared to other PC's easily. Even more some of the games they are porting such as Crysis 3 already takes a lot of space on a PC, so imagine what it'll take on this guy.
Ah, so they are putting that disk space into the tablet because they want to INSTALL games on there, now I see. I'm not sure this makes sense since it would make that grid and my own PC somewhat obsolete (just in single games cases), but I see the reason behind it now.
It all depends on the cost of the console.
Say the 500gb console is $200, that undercuts the Xbox One and PS4 with a big difference in price.
Smart TV's aren't always smooth, or reliable, and services are always stopped and not supported for Smart TV's very quickly.
But Crysis 3 is still a demanding title, and even more so on an ARM platform.
Somehow I don't think the 500GB shield would cost 200$, last time I checked the 'normal' Shield tablet sold for more than 350€ here. I guess it will be more like 450€
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#5078083 Posted on: 05/22/2015 02:06 PM
But this isn't a tablet. I'd does not have a display. I would put money on it being $200-300.
But this isn't a tablet. I'd does not have a display. I would put money on it being $200-300.
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To each their own, but I don't think, I believe that mass market consumption will buy a teevee with all of the media streaming stuff built-in and just use a console for new games, and not buy this for old games.
The competition is better, is what I'm saying. Not good enough or exclusive enough to be a games console and not better that a teevee for media streaming.
It's an unnecessary waste.
I agree it won't be a huge success like Xbox or Playstation, but this isn't just for old games, the whole point of this console is to use the Nvidia Grid streaming service which streams new and old games.