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Great. Which means little to no future support. Awesome.
According to July NPD the Shield sold less than 10,000 units in July.
For comparison, the Ouya did somewhere between 13K and 20K in its first retail month (last month). Ouya did under 10K this month too.
I don't know what kind of numbers Nvidia was expecting but 10K at retail in its debut month CANNOT be good.
Ain't nobody buying an Ouya or a Shield this Christmas.
Even the Vita's probably too dead to come back and it's currently bottoming out higher than where Ouya and Shield launched.
Wii U is selling abysmally too and it more than tripled Shield this month (Wii U's only releases were two movie licensed games). But it's about to actually get some games for a change, and might actually rebound.
I fear you are right. I think phones/tablets have essentially destroyed the dedicated handheld platforms. Oh well. [plays gameboy]
excluding the 3DS though...and the originl PSP in japan. Both still make good numbers I think.
threw my Shield in the drawer until I read someone mention "how great the new PC streaming works!" or until Dead Trigger 2 comes out. Either way...disappointed.
I am so confused by the marketing minds that went into creating Ouya and Shield.
Basic console gaming economics has always depended upon licensing agreements with developers, which helps the console build up its software library right?
Shield streams games from your PC, and Ouya plays Android phone games. How are they planning to generate excitement --if there had been any to begin with?-- and sustain it.
Very skeptical of this thing but I look forward to reading your impressions.
Wasn't there a Nvidia Tablet that just came out which blows this away...
how is the dreamcast emulation? that seems pretty interesting. i guarantee if i had portable shenmue i would actually beat them.