If anyone has doubts about the dominance of Nvidia in pecetowym playing should look at steamowe statistics. As I write these words, almost 5% (allowing for a small spy Valve) players use the GTX-970 and then the 960, integrated family of Intel HD Graphics, the GTX 750 Ti, again intel … and so the change until the twelfth place , where you see the R9 200 from AMD. Drama, were it not that the “Reds” provide graphics for all present for many years on the market and coming, “remastered” consoles. Nvidia none of them has not and will not. It has for its own konsolkę and idea.
konsolkę because the official comparisons refer to the Apple TV or similar toys Amazon. It’s hard, however, to position Shield Android TV on their level or experiment called Ouya, since I played on it today The Witcher 3, Metro: Last Light, Mad Max, Juju and Sonic & amp; SEGA All-Stars Racing. Myk lies in the fact that the first three titles were streamed from the cloud Nvidia (clouds Frankfurt strictly speaking), while the remaining work on the guts consoles, purchased and downloaded to the internal memory of the device. In the same way as draws all humanoid plays on tablets and smartphones. After a cursory tests, so you can assume that a specially prepared for the Shield, humanoid versions of games of PS3 and Xbox 360 (and contrary to appearances, some of them is about 450) quietly on this item will go, the latest Tegra shows claw. Titles created with the aim of eighth-generation consoles mostly operate while the clouds.
An important here is the fact that they work. In Polish conditions, in a really satisfactory manner. The Witcher 3 short presentations and hands-on sessions looked around medium graphics settings on the PC or Xbox machines version. Helpful in assessing the graphics was the Metro which options a lot of things were set to medium, but it is at 60 frames per second. Interestingly, the Metro these settings you can tweak, but then the game continued to develop. Back to the recommended specifications + restart title naprawiało problem. And rather quickly, because the whole charge the battery more efficiently than a plate of game consoles. Go ahead, you can therefore assume that the Shield Android TV on this day allows to stream games console quality. Sometimes the minimum abhor the luminaire, sometimes for 60 frames per second. There is no rule, a lot also depends on the games themselves or the available internet access. With stable tens of m / s, so closer to fifty, quietly achieved 1080p60fps. Around twenty mb / s allow you to play 720p.
Shield Android TV like other humanoid mikrokonsolki has or will soon have a whole bunch of applications. Sam used the YouTube, Netfliksa. But curiosity in 4K, or resolutions, to which the PS4 and Xbox One yet to finish off with the release of Neo and Scorpio. Impressive, especially as we look at the price – 899 zł with 16GB of memory. The version with 500GB on board now costs 1299 zł, dangerously close to the current hardware-gena. For the time being not wystreamujemy but the game did not watch Netfliksa in 4K and do not take advantage of the many androidowych facilities (Chromecast etc.).
Nvidia quite clever approaches to the subject, but not everything looks great, especially the need for additional buying newer games. It is not enough to pay a subscription to have the premiere of The Witcher 3 Dead Island: Definitive Edition – for 10 euros a month, we have access to a pool of several dozen mostly older games. News you need to buy a digital distribution, all the time, but paying a subscription. As the subscription runs out, you end up a chance to play purchased titles. It’s a bit like without the active PS Plus not odpaliłbyś any previously purchased on PS Storz game. Feebly, network infrastructure Nvidia someone must, however, remain, and consolation we have … steamowe or gog-in codes. When you buy the game on TV Shield Android code to get the same game for the PC. You can sell it, give your colleague or realize on your PC gamingowym if such disposal. And with him, to stream a picture at home on television, Shield acts, as well as Steam and PlayStation Link TV (except that here also supports 4K). Before, however, be happy – buying on Steam or gog.com game does not automatically give you access to the cloud version of Nvidia. This solution works only in one direction.
Do you buy Shield Android TV on June 20, as will appear in Polish shops? No. With a few simple reasons. Konsolka so far does not support playing the web, works only local multiplayer. The construction has included being heavy rains well and most importantly, there is not all the games that I PS4, PC and Xbox One, about exclusive’ach not to mention. Available titles are devoid of additives so far (The Witcher 3) or the latest updates (The Witcher 3 Shield on Android TV is now the version 1.12 …). The argument about the lack of need to update the games work when servers always have the most recent version. So far it is not, but the issue is development.
I support Shield Android TV. Nvidia has an idea to combine core’owego playing with toy casual setting for a few hundred dollars on the occasion of technical standards for streaming games. In a few years, Nvidia may be the longed-Netfliksem Spotify or video games, but it could also land on your own shield. Failure Valve Steam Machines shows that the idea, and experience, or even a monopoly in the sector of the video game market is not enough to push through a completely new approach to electronic game. Although I admit that the longing for “an approach”, playing with clouds in AAA and smaller things from the disk, wait. Shield shows that it is technically possible. Who will show that it knows how to make money by creating real competition for consoles and PCs?
Paul Olszewski
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