Project Shield Brings Cloud Gaming Home: Feature Creep 39 By Tarmack
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Project Shield is a mobile gaming device. Think of an Xbox 360 controller and then add a clamshell flip up 5 inch 720p screen to it and that's basically the device itself. It has two thumbsticks, a D-pad and the usual XYAB and shoulder buttons. It also has mounted speakers although I can't think of many times I've used a portable device with the sound on unless I had headphones. The screen is also a multi-touch which when combined with the normal controller buttons does make for a very interesting device.
It also runs Android Jellybean which puts it square in the realm of new game development for Android devices. Along with this, the Ouya and the Gamestick maybe we'll see some Android games that don't rely on a touch pad for controls which certainly has stunted the growth of really good in depth mobile games.
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