LA CONSOLA PORTÁTIL DE NVIDIA YA TIENE FECHA DE LANZAMIENTO Y PRECIO

Proximamente en sus pantallas: saturemos el mercado con nuevos sistemas. Nvidia acaba de anuncio que Shield, su sistema portátil de entretenimiento va a ponerse a la venta el próximo mes de Junio a un precio de 349 dólares. La página oficial de Nvidia comenzará a aceptar reservas el próximo 20 de Mayo.

Recordemos un poco el concepto y modus operandi de Nvidia con esta máquina portátil. Se trata de una consola para Android y cuenta con una pantalla de 5 pulgadas de alta resolución. Dos objetivos básicos: los juegos Android en el salón (vía cable HDMI) y los juegos disponibles en tu cuenta de Steam, vía PC vía remoto. ¿Qué tal saldrá la jugada?. Suena jodidamente marciano.

Nvidia is announcing today that it will debut its Shield portable gaming system in June for $349. Preorders will be live on May 20 on Nvidia’s site.

The new game system will play Android titles on a 5-inch high-resolution screen that sits atop a game controller. Shield is the first game system ever deployed by graphics chip maker Nvidia. Its aim is a dual one: Shield can take Android games into the living room (connected via a HDMI cable) and take PC-based Steam games from the computer display to the big-screen TV.

Shield features a console-grade controller, a high-definition, 720p display, Tegra 4-based graphics, and Android games that are available on Nvidia’s TegraZone web site. You can connect your Google Play account to Shield to enjoy your favorite movies, music, and apps on the Shield device.

The system will be available on Newegg, GameStop, Micro Center, and Canada Computers. Shield will be able to tap a PC with an Nvidia GeForce GTX GPU and play the Steam games on that computer on a big-screen TV. The PC will stream the device to Shield, where the gamer can play on the 5-inch screen or play on a HDMI-cable-connected TV.

The system features Tegra 4, which Nvidia calls the world’s fastest mobile processor with 72 graphics cores, four central processing unit (CPU) cores, and 2 gigabytes of main memory. Shield has integrated speakers, 802.11n WiFi, Android’s Jelly Bean version, 16 gigabytes of flash memory for storage, global positioning system navigation, Bluetooth 3.0, mini-HDMI output, micro-USB 2.0, a microSD storage slot, and a 3.5 millimeter stereo headphone jack.