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Permalink Reply by Payden on January 7, 2013 at 8:30am

2 things.

1. Input/video lag.

2. The button layout disturbs me. :|

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Permalink Reply by brunorod on January 7, 2013 at 9:11am

Nvidia is saying that there will be no input lag and they have shown some gameplay demos that look fine. I 'm not saying that it's not going to have problems but it seems that as long as you have a good wifi connection, it can work as intended.

I'm not sure what you mean by the button layout. It's a 360 controller ripoff with a screen attached. It seems like it would do great as far as controls. Way better than any other android solution out there and maybe even better than the Vita/3DS since those have a screen between the buttons. 

Payden said:

2 things.

1. Input/video lag.

2. The button layout disturbs me. :|

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Permalink Reply by Kevin J Baird on January 7, 2013 at 12:53pm

Pretty sure the gaming on the go is gaming on a local network.  The Internet would be far too laggy for this to work.  Maybe for turn based games it'll be fine, but your standard upload speed from a home connection is not fast enough to deliver the kind of rates that something like Onlive uses to deliver content.  So forget playing Skyrim on the bus.

I suspect it'll be $199.  

Nobody is going to buy this really.  Because nobody is going to carry it around and hope there is a WiFi hotspot near them.  They really should have created a Bluetooth controller that a standard phone can snap into.  Then maybe people would use it with their Android phones.  

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Permalink Reply by kolop1 on January 7, 2013 at 1:05pm

That looks way to bulky to really be portable. 

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Permalink Reply by Character0 on January 7, 2013 at 2:18pm

Tegra 4 looks pretty powerful. Read a hands on and they said PC games looked good but like Kevin said you will probably have to be on the local network to play.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin J Baird on January 8, 2013 at 11:34am

And that's not a horrible idea, it's just for a limited audience.  If you want to play Skyrim while sitting on a chair in your yard, or wander the house and play while in the Kitchen making soup.  Great idea.  It's just that most people won't want to drop the $200 for that feature.  

Most people already have a phone that they've paid money for games on.  They don't want to buy another Android device and buy games on that too.  I really think they should just have created a controller for Android and write some software that does the same thing for phones.  Put a charger on it, and people can charge their phones and game.  They'd already have a data plan for Internet, they could use their existing stock of games, etc.   

Plus as you upgrade phones, the controller can go with you.  Here, you'll have a whole new device that you'll need to upgrade every few years to stay up-to-date with handhelds that rapidly improve. 

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Permalink Reply by Hawksprite on January 9, 2013 at 10:32am

When I read through that the first time I thought they meant LAN.  But reading some replys I suppose most people are assuming that means over the ineterwebz.. which along with what you guys are saying this obviously means LAN play.

As for the success of it I think it might do all right when comparing it to the Wii U.  The Wii U did fine (I believe, I haven't checked the numbers) and one of it's selling points is that you can stream your games while someone else is watching TV or around the house.  A PC would also have a library considerably larger then the Wii U.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with it and what can of access the developers will have with the hardware.  nVidia does a pretty decent job with there SDK's and community access so if it's open enough you may be able to whip up some homebrew applications to allow this to work with other consoles/devices.  It all depends on how exactly there streaming works.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin J Baird on January 9, 2013 at 11:04am

ARM processors like Tegra and Apple's A chips are low power, they pale in comparison to modern PC processors.  For instance an i3 that came out in 2010 crushes Tegra 4 in every benchmark except power use.  These are not, in any way, capable of running Skyrim for real.  Streaming though, sure.

I checked another site about info on the unit here.  It's LAN only.  And this thing is really small.  Smaller than what you think by first looking at it.  You imagine large controller like Xbox, but the entire unit takes up about half the space of an open hand.  Of course, these are prototypes so we won't know what it will eventually look like when released.  Still, it's interesting.  

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