BBC: NVIDIA Is Working On Hybrid PC/Android Gaming Device

Le BBC revealed that NVIDIA is preparing an Android-based gaming device that can link up to a PC’s graphics card in order to boost its graphics quality.

Alongside with the device, NVIDIA will also release a budget-priced separate controller that can stream PC games to TV screen via its HDMI-out port.

Apparently the device and controller will interface with the PC through NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience system which limits support to fairly recent NVIDIA graphics cards only.

“I think it’s fair to say that Shield sold reasonably poorly,” analyst Ed Barton told the BBC. “And if the new device requires your PC to have a relatively new NVIDIA GPU to make use of its abilities, that will really limit its addressable market.”

The device will run Android games natively using NVIDIA’s recently announced powerful Tegra K1 chipset.