![]() Having played DOOM 3 BFG on the SHIELD TV, I can say that I'm sad to see the ship sink, but it's a matter of market share, which Nvidia simply never got with their Tegra chips and the fact that Android devs did not bother to update the bulk of Nvidia SHIELD portable/tablet apps for the SHIELD TV's Android TV OS really didn't help Nvidia's bottom line at all. Given that, other than the obvious "Big D***!" GPU that Nvidia brings to the table, they really have nothing to offer anyone looking for an SOC to use in Android devices, though the SOC is a great fit for such applications. The single purpose of the SHIELD products was to give Nvidia a showcase reference platform for their Tegra SOCs and every phone/tablet vendor that bought into the hardware several years ago, lost big money on their products because the Android software wasn't where it needed to be and the media-centric SOCs from MediaTek and other big names in Asia quickly became competitive with what Nvidia was putting out, so Tegra R&D resources have been diverted to AI applications, with a focus on automotive and security uses that will use the computing power of the GPU. ![]() They took a big loss from the Tegra SOCs because electronics makers in Asia chose Chinese/Taiwanese SOCs for their TV/set-top-box/phone/tablet products. There has been no word in the dev circles I'm connected with that anything is in the pipeline and a report I read on Nvidia's finances from some time ago stated that the CEO closed the product development for SHIELD around the time Nintendo became interested in Tegra. ![]() "AFAIK, Nvidia is not planning a new SHIELD product at this time and will likely only continue supporting SHIELD TV for another year or two. ![]()
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