Monday 13 October 2014
NVIDIA's original Shield handheld, we called it a "truly strange device," albeit a fun, powerful and completely worthwhile one. The Shield tablet is everything that device was, but less odd. As a tablet, it's far more versatile than the handheld was, making its lack of Tegra-optimized (and exclusive) games easier to forgive. It's still a powerful gaming device, but it's no longer an outlier. At the end of the day, the NVIDIA Shield is a solid, worthwhile 8-inch Android tablet in its own right, and it just happens to have a host of novel features, to boot. Sadly, making the most of the device requires an extra $60 controller and an NVIDIA GTX GPU - making the full Shield experience an expensive proposition.
