NVidia confirms Shield 2 is a tablet! I knew Shield 1. Shield 1 was a friend of mine.
It is rare that 80’s presidential politics has much to say about 2014 gaming, but then, black swans appear, like now. After months of speculation, Nvidia has confirmed that its impending Nvidia Shield 2 gaming device is a … tablet ?! Tablet? Yes, let’s call a spade a spade. It’s a well specced beast of a tablet, but the fact is that unlike the Shield 1, which was a daring, hideously ugly but damned functionally excellent piece of gaming kit for the handheld android (retro)gamer, the Shield 2 looks to be JAFT – just another frickin’ tablet, with an optional controller. Optional . Look, here it is; so optional, it’s floating in space. Which is, of course, the subliminal message of this image: to gamers, the Shield 2’s optional controller is as optional as air in space. When the Shield 1 was released, the general consensus of reviewers was that it was a bold move to dominate a niche market, but that more time was needed to see if this would pay off for Nvidia. Time appear...
