Android L update for NVIDIA Shield removes bundled games, features

[Syntaxvgm]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/07/25/0017236/the-android-l-update-for-nvidia-shield-portable-removes-features

 

For those of us who still remember the Hobson's choice with the 3.21 update of the PS3 firmware, the most recent update to the Nvidia Shield Portable is eerily similar. The update, which is necessary to run recent games and apps that require Android 5.0 APIs, removes some features from the device, and removes the games that were bundled with the device, Sonic 4 Episode II and The Expendables: ReArmed. Nvidia has stressed that it is an optional update, but how many users have been told for months that the update was coming, some of whom may have bought the device after the update was announced, only to find out now they won't receive all the functionality they paid for? How is it still legal for these companies to advertise and sell a whole product but only deliver part of it?

how is this legal? I about cried when I had to remove yellow dog linux from my ps3. I don't understand why they did this, they knew people would be mad, and they have been getting a bad rap for removing features lately (cough laptop overclocking even on MXM cards) 

[MageTank]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/07/25/0017236/the-android-l-update-for-nvidia-shield-portable-removes-features

how is this legal? I about cried when I had to remove linux from my ps3. I don't understand why they did this, they knew people would be mad, and they have been getting a bad rap for removing features lately (cough laptop overclocking even on MXM cards) 

Looks like i sold my Shield Portable at the best time. Managed to get what i paid for it back out of it. I do pity those that still use it. Waited months upon months for this update, only for it to do more harm than good. 

[Sors]

I could be wrong, but I believe that google is asking companies to not include software on the lollipop updates, My Z2 had a lot of crapware apps installed by my service provider, but all of them were removed with the lollipop update.

[Kilerbomb]

I love my shield portable, it really sucks to see nvidia taking it down a path like this. Up until this point, they have only added features to it. It doesn't make any sense to me what they could possibly gain from doing this.

[Tygron]

Uh... because i'm guessing those games and features don't work on 5.1? Miracast I can see being the biggest issue because i'd assume they're still making updates to that, unless that can't be updated on the Shield. But the games, yea i'm assuming Sega and whoever makes that other game just aren't making updates for 5.1 and they don't work.

 

There's a game I wanna buy, The World Ends With You that I want for my phone but it doesn't work on Android 5 and higher because of ART. So I won't buy it until/ if Square wants to update the game.

 

I don't really see why this is a big issue. If you wanna be mad at anyone, then be mad at the people not updating shit to work on the new OS OR poor backwards compatibility on Google's part.