NVIDIA SHIELD - A Tegra 4 Quad Cored Portable Gaming System

In a surprise announcement at CES 2013 NVIDIA announced their very own, Android powered, portable gaming system to compete with the likes of Nintendo's 3DS, Sony's PS Vita and even other mobile gaming platforms. Named project SHIELD it is the very first device to use NVIDIA's newly announced Tegra 4 chipset - the worlds most powerful mobile processor, utilizing 4 processor cores an a whopping 72 GPU cores! It boast a 5-10 hour battery life when gaming or nearly 24 hours watching HD video using the devices 1280x720 HD, retinal, multi-touch display. Using the Android OS means that from day one there will be thousands of games to play (many of them completely free!) using the touchscreen and a good amount of them already work with game pads so you'll always have something to play.

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