Nvidia has introduced a gaming tablet with a gamepad

The American vendor announced two products under the Shield brand: a "tablet" running on Android and a game controller for it. 

A week ago, a rumor appeared on the network that Nvidia is preparing the second generation of the portable Shield console. As it turned out, the information was only partially reliable. This time, the company decided to move away from the concept close to Sony and Nintendo. 

Nvidia showed an 8-inch tablet based on the Tegra K1 processor. The feature of the product is not so much in the characteristics (screen resolution 1920 by 1200 pixels, 2 GB of RAM) as in the positioning. Americans promote it as "the best tablet for gamers." Previously, a similar approach was actively used by manufacturers of desktop systems (including Alienware and Razer). Nvidia is moving their practice to the mobile market. 

The company also introduced a controller for the tablet. It will not work with other Android devices.   

There are at least three possible ways to work with the device: playing directly on the tablet, connecting the tablet to the TV and playing on it, and streaming from PC to tablet (for streaming, you need a machine with a GTX-650 or higher graphics card).

Google Play will also feature apps specifically optimized for the gadget (at first there will be 11 of them). 

The price of the tablet in Russia starts at 13,990 rubles, and you will have to pay another 3,490 rubles for the controller. 

The release of the gadget is scheduled for August

Source: http://shield.nvidia.ru /