Meet Shield, the affordable Android TV gaming console you’ve been waiting for

[Wireless News]

NVIDIA is very serious about gaming on Android devices, and the chipmaker on Wednesday further proved its commitment to this particular space by launching a brand new console-under the Shield brand. Unsurprisingly, the device runs Android — Android TV to be more precise-—-and should be available in stores sooner than you might think. FROM EARLIER: Nvidia’s most ambitious chip yet will be very hard for the Apple A9 to match The NVIDIA Shield will-offer monster performance, based on the company’s brand-new Tegra X1 processor that was announced in early January. The company says the device will play “top-quality 4K video content” and it will stream cloud-based on-demand games at up to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second. The console

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