According to Nvidia, its streaming all-in-one game device Project Shield started its life less than a year ago as "little more than a game controller fastened to a smartphone with wood." The company has written a detailed blog, outlining how Project Shield made its way to a CES announcement this year. Apparently, the controller and screen combo was considered for quite some time.
"We’ve been talking on and off about building something for more than five years, maybe 10," said Nvidia senior vice president of content and strategy Tony Tamasi. "We wrote all the core software to hook Android games to controllers. Then we thought, ‘Why don’t we just build a device with a great controller built in?'"
A mere ten days before its CES reveal, Project Shield was still in the Nvidia labs, being assembled and tweaked by engineers wearing blue lab coats. Fueled by "greasy" fried chicken, the team spent 14-hour days for months on end building the device. The announcement of the Tegra 4 kept Nvidia motivated.
Be sure to check out our hands-on impressions of Project Shield at IGN Tech.
Matt Clark is a freelance writer covering the world of videogames, tech, and popular culture. Follow him on Twitter @ClarkMatt and MyIGN at Matt_Clark.
Source : ign[dot]com
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