Nvidia announces portable Android-powered console

It doesn't look bad, but it's not pulling me into buying it. I got the Wii U for the whole gaming experience in your hand. It does the job well, a little slow on loading times, but enough to play video games in another room or while the TV is being used by another person. Fair enough this will do it well with streaming PC games and I would love that, but the layout is pretty 'erm... nasty. I wouldn't mind a Wii U tablet that would stream PC content through it, since it sits nicely in your hands, and is really simple to use as a touch screen device too.

Could this be another wave of different gaming machines? In another article the Ouya was discussed. In the 80's/90's you had the PC, Nintendo and Sony, like now, but also Sega, Commodore 64 and lots of other platforms. Now there is only 3 big ones and the PC with Windows (well Mac and Linux are *beginning* to get more game supported).

I can at the moment either play natively on my gaming PC and the big screen monitors or from the couch on the large TV screen with either a mouse, keyboard, controller or other input devices in both cases.

Why would I want to stream games from my PC to a tiny screen attached to a controller with input lag / delay ? (Look at the thumbstick input lag / delay in the linked video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmfOf1epclc#t=40s)

I think this falls into the category of things nobody really needs but media and marketing try to make you want it, as usual.

I have no interest in this and will continue to just use my controller in front of my monitors or the TV instead, should I feel the need for "console style gaming", but will be following further news about this for amusement.

There may be "interesting" games on the Android store at some point, but I just don't see it happening, besides there's no price announced yet but it appears to be in the 250 to 300 EUR range - that's roughly 1/3rd of a PC that runs every game currently out there, smoothly.

I bet there'll even be a forced online DRM bundled with that thing, so it's basically a stillbirth.

will it over heat and burn your hands after a few minutes? ether way it will be a waste of money.

My god it's so ugly, doesn't look comfortable to play and I would not get this out on the bus. This is the best Nvidia could come up with?

It looks rather clumsy judging from the picture.

wat a terrible idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This shows how strong the gaming market is at the moment, is like a big chocolate cake, and every one wants a piece of it. So much for the gaming industry having problems huh?

Ou..no!!

Nintendo, MS & Sony will never be beaten by any of these other gaming devices

Onlive didn't stand a chance & Ouya, Nvidia Xbox controller with screen & steam Box

because there missing on important huge thing, big AAA blockbuster exclusives

looks interesting , but i will wait till project is taken off the name

What a terribly awkward looking device.

the ouya will curbstomp this thing with sales..and the ouya will just get by..this is going to be a complete failure and I can't believe nvidia would stoup this low

This thing is useless without a top tier rig. But it's ok if you want to play your PC on the toilet and you don't afford a big enough LCD in the bathroom.

Really? Entering the dying handheld gaming market........ shoulda just focused on making CPU/GPU chips for x86 systems.

well i hope more companies make things like this, im sick an tired of the big two companies monopoly on console gaming ....especially after hearing their plans to block used game sales, not to mention the membership fee's.... such a thinly veiled money gouge, to that end i hope sonys and ms consoles are stillborn.

ew