What would a tablet have to do to be seriously considered as the best place for you to play games? Native Twitch streaming? Good-as-console versions of popular games? Play-from-your-couch capability? Nvidia's new gaming tablet can do all of that. And some extra stuff besides. You can use a controller with it, too.
If you've been curious about Nvidia's streaming hybrid handheld, April will be a very good time to pick one up.
I'm beginning to wonder why Nvidia included a screen on its Shield gaming handheld. I've barely looked at it in over a month, thanks to the Android handheld's GameStream console mode, and now that it can stream games from my PC to the TV at 1080p? I might never open it again.
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I don't know about you, but my first thought upon seeing Nvidia's new Shield handheld gaming console was as follows:
