Nvidia announces portable Android-powered console

@mrboone01 And my point was what kind of portable gaming device leaves you tied to your PC?

I WANTZ IT

@mrboone01 Read my entire comment, I said "Other than that it's a (presumably) expensive way to play mobile games."

If it's streaming from your PC, then you're probably stuck in the general vicinity of your PC, in which case what's the point? Why would I want to play games on a tiny screen with lower resolution when my PC is sitting there running the game anyway? Other than that it's a (presumably) expensive way to play mobile games.

considering that you have to stream games from pc, then I don't think that console gamers will buy this, because many don't have PCs that are capable of running those games, if it is possible for the nvidia console to run the game, then that might be cool. If I just said something really stupid please let me know.

I don't know why, but, I think this won't work for Nvidia. It looks interesting and all, but I'm not sure about it.

pure steaming? Success or not, I'm not buying this shit. I better buy a 3DS, it's very cheap now :D

lots of cool and interesting things propping up thesedays, i imagine e3 2013 is gonna be good

looks like someones copying off the razer fiona, i think the fiona will be better though.

I think this will turn out to be another hum-drum gaming device like the Ouya will be. nothing super special.

I assume the 38 hour battery life is on standby. If that's battery life playing a PC game with all features maxed out, this thing defies all physics/chemistry/logic/science/standards

This looks horrible. I'll stick to my Vita.

I honestly don't understand their market/demographic for this piece of hardware. PC gamers who want mobile gaming? And don't care if they look incredibly awkward while doing so?

In my humble opinion, there is zero possibility of this platform being a success.

I don't know 700 xbox 360's worth of power, actually it's realistic, look at the iphone and thumb drives you can swallow that hold 64 gb's of data... heh

Also it only has to process that small monitor so yeah that's probably a true capability... lol

2013 tech

240 nvidia gpus worth of power doesn't really give people a good picture of what it can do. You have to keep in mind that they could be talking about any gpu produced by nvidia... maybe it has 240 gtx680's worth of power and this thing will cost $150000 lol

700 Xbox 360s worth of power?

I am skeptical.

how heavy will it be though?

"The future of gaming, according to Nvidia".

Can't wait to play Crysis 3 at max on this then...

im predicting flop on this one

First they need to learn how to build a decent controller before attempting something like this.

if it costs more than 300 i will not buy! Its not anothcer console, is just a pc stremming device, if the price is 300 i can buy other console instead

I think this is a great idea for PC gamers to take their games on the go. No need for "exclusive games" on the portable handheld market if anyone could take the PC or console market and stream it to a handheld. The HDMI port means you can hook it up to almost any modern TV/monitor. Honestly it sounds perfect. My big one is the latency issue: how close you need to be to a PC for it to work, and the bigger issue of how being 300 miles away would impact the performance. I mean, I stream RTS games from my PC to my Kindle; the latency issue is seconds afterwards though, and that's just a few miles away. Fix it, and you've got my money.

All these new consoles seem forced and not natural

This thing is unbelievably ugly. Neat concept, good hardware and battery life but it has one fatal flaw. It plays google play games.... yuck! Streaming from your home PC is cool. If i have an AMD card which is better than the 650 can i still do that? or is the technology exclusive to nvidia card owners? Wouldn't buy it regardless but it would be a point of interest for me.

The Moga Android controller is better than this thing for playing Android games with your phone/tablet. Also, look at how humongous it is! It's bigger than the OG Xbox's duke controller. How are you supposed to store this? Doesn't look like the screen can fold up on top of the buttons. Stick to what your good at, Nvidia... grafx cards.

If it really is that powerful it's going to be very expensive

Can some one invent something cool please? Like a * 3D Virtual Reality * gaming console. Stop re-inventing things. Is not like the technology to that doesn't exist.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/38244/Sony-Were-testing-3D-virtual-reality-games

I'd be more interested in it's ability to play Android games and original content than streaming. It only streams over wifi, so if I'm already in my house, why would I want to play on this small screen instead of my big screen?

The PC streaming is either going to be the killer app or the death knell for this one, depending on how well it works. You'll obviously need to leave your PC on with some sort of server app running on it to launch and control the games you wish to play, which may be a security liablility, and then there's the latency issue. If those problems can be overcome, it could be a very desirable piece of kit.

If your that close to your PC then why not just play on your PC? More nonsensical items like this are just pointless and a waste of plastic. Cell Phones, Ipads, all that garbage. I have no use for any of them.

Nvidia is going out of business

the controller is bigger than the screen

I'm surprised no one's concerned about Android battery appetites. In fact, battery life is a major problem with this platform. I had to keep my older smarphone because my new one with Android kills battery in less than a day. And they say this device will run games.