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Wondering how true this story is... Nvidia Shield Portable 2 spotted at the FCC Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nvidia-shield-portable-2-spotted-at-the-fcc#xshBWDb6A5o8clML.99 "It's been several years since Nvidia introduced its portable Android console, the original Nvidia Shield, and CES has come and gone without news of a follow-up device. Luckily, it looks like Nvidia has been working on a successor to the Shield, as certification documents have been spotted over at the Federal Communications Commission in the states. The device, which looks to use the same controller with a flip screen as the original, was spotted by a member of the dedidcated Shield subreddit."

I was looking to buy a new hand held gaming device to play on, when I leave the house. I was looking for something based on the Android operating system, such as the nVidia Sheild, and the Archos GamePad 2. I don't know if there are any better devices than this, if there are, I would be open to newer options. Any comment would be helpful. Thanks in Advance.

To jump to the conclusion of this post, I disapprove of the "Ghetto Shield". Now, onto my reasons. I feel that this project makes a mockery of the new nVidia Shield. There is plenty to write about, but I will try to keep this as brief as possible. The nVidia Shield is a device that certainly looks like it is just a cell phone glued/taped to a gamepad. But I believe it goes further than this for an overall positive user experience. The following things are true for the real shield, and not-as-true for the ghetto shield: - portability - connectivity - usability - cost effectiveness The ghetto shield is not as portable as the real shield. The main reason here is because the ghetto shield cannot fold-up into a convenient, self-case form factor. Depending on the phone used, the ghetto shield does not have a simple way to connect to a TV, which is used mostly for the native Android games. Certainly some phones do have HDMI-out, but this is not always a guarantee. The usability is a bit of a mixed-bag in this instance. If the Android games are properly designed for gamepad use, then the real shield wins. For the ghetto shield, there must be a compatibility layer/driver/connection to play the native Android games. If the ghetto shield's gamepad is meant only to be connected to the PC for remote gaming, then indeed, the real shield wins. However, if the ghetto shield has all features of the real shield, then they are on the same playing field. Not much testing has ben performed on either device, so the final verdict here is unknown, but it appears that the real shield wins in terms of usability. This is more true when you factor-in the ease of launching Steam games directly through UI. The ghetto shield requires a previous connection through Splashtop, and using a "virtual mouse" with your finger on a high-ppi screen is not as usable. The cost effectiveness is terrible for the ghetto. The presumption is that a lot of the parts are already in possession. If a phone must be bought, along with a wireless gamepad, dongle, Dremel tool, and spare metal parts, the cost is way higher for a ghetto shield over a real shield. This last point launches into my real-world comparison why I feel that this whole Ghetto Shield idea is not up to the standards of Linus Media Group. Let's take the following scenario: -- Begin Scenario Johnny makes a post on the forum. He is new to water cooling for his desktop PC. He doesn't understand much about the parts including their quality and assembly. Seeing as how he already owns a garden hose, he just instead cuts up the hose, uses a lot of elastic bands already in his possession, and rigs up a water cooling loop. Upon reading the post, both Linus and Slick do a facepalm. -- End Scenario In the above scenario, it is my assumption that both Linus and Slick would think this is a terrible water-cooling solution. According to existing videos, both Linus and Slick would demand only the highest quality parts and solution for water-cooling in a gaming rig. Here is another scenario: -- Begin Scenario #2 Billy has a spare, old 15" monitor lying around. He also heard of something called an Intel NUC. Since Billy already has some old SO-DIMMS, he decieds to spend roughly $400-$500 on a NUC, small SSD, and battery pack. Billy then proceeds to build his very own "Ghetto Laptop", whereby he double-sided velcros a NUC to the back of the monitor, and then uses half-a-roll of duct tape as a makeshift hinge for an old keyboard to the monitor. -- End Scenario #2 The issue still exists; Billy is much better off buying a cheap ultrabook such as the latest Fujitsu Lifebook for around the same price. He will have much better battery life, and each of the following areas including portability, connectivity, usability, and cost effectiveness is much improved over his "ghetto solution". Once again, such a silly project would be laughed-off by both Linus and Slick, whereby Linus just looks downward, shakes his head, and mutters "no... just, no." As a result, I believe the LMG's "Ghetto Shield" is a partial mix of humor and seriousness. I do truly understand that the Ghetto Shield is supposed to be just for fun (shits and giggles), but I also feel that the general audience perceives that the nVidia Shield is a joke of a product due to the comparison that it is just a cell phone taped to a gamepad. I would disagree. I believe the overall usability and user experience warrants a non-condescending look. Splashtop ruthlessly eats through battery life, as was my experience when working remotely outdoors on a laptop connected to my work-PC. Also, I believe (though have not verified) that nVidia's streaming solution has almost no lag, and certainly less lag than Splashtop. Splashtop recently released support for nVidia GPUs, however, which is probably something similar to streaming for nVidia Shield. At the end of the day, the responsiveness of the stream whether it's nVidia Shield or Splashtop will be much better for nVidia Kepler GPUs. As a result, your "works for AMD, also" comment is a little weak. With all that said, the Ghetto Shield is an inferior comparison. I am not an adamant defender of Shield (no pun intended). If/When you get a review unit, and the user experience of the nVidia Shield is terrible, if it crashes, drops streams, or is in fact laggy, then by all means give it the bad review it deserves. If after playing with the device you feel that the $300 price tag is unjustified, then go ahead, give it bad marks. If you want to make cool mods such as Logan's retina display arm, then I would like that very much since there are no claims that it is a near-equivalent replacement to something else. My ending remark is that the "Ghetto Shield" is something that I feel like is substandard and low-quality to what I view as a premium YouTube channel and online community, which is Linus Tech Tips.

Not sure if im excited... http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/nvidia-s-shield-successor-is-a-tablet/0134791?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mcvuk%2Fstream+%28MCV%3A+Home+Stream%29

couldn't figure out if this was more console or PC, think this is the more appropriate place for it. I was browsing some reaction videos about the debacle, and it dawned on me. Nvidia can stream your games to a handheld android device, so what if the ps4 could take steam big picture games from your pc and send the controller back through the network. With the ease of that things like general media streaming would be small feats, xbox is busy touting themselves as a media box but if Valve and Sony do that, theres no need for you to ever buy an... anything. Everyone and their mum, or more likely their bro, have a windows laptop and with anything from the highest rated apus up there are some pretty nice controller friendly games on steam. If its brought through with GaiKai then suddenly Sony wins the everything race. If it was general screen output then, emulated consoles and the like are made available. A more likely scenario I came up with as I was writing this is some modder lets you dual boot a linux iso that contains this function or a homebrew app but so long as you can couch game with the ps4 games and your entire pc lineup the implementation doesn't matter to me.