Nvidia announces Project Shield – a handheld Android gaming system at CES 2013!

Nvidia has unveiled a new handheld gaming system called Project Shield. Project Shield will run with Tegra 4 processor, it is Android-based portable game device with a 5-inch, 720p Retinal multitouch display with 294ppi pixel density and can play Android and PC games!

Additionally, the processor can give a 4K resolution video over HDMI to external displays. It also features Advanced sound processing capabilities, and a 33Wh battery which will provide five to ten hours of play time or 24 hours of HD video playback.

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“Project SHIELD was created by NVIDIA engineers who love to game and imagined a new way to play,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer at NVIDIA. “We were inspired by a vision that the rise of mobile and cloud technologies will free us from our boxes, letting us game anywhere, on any screen. We imagined a device that would do for games what the iPod and Kindle have done for music and books, letting us play in a cool new way. We hope other gamers love SHIELD as much as we do.”

The product is under beta stage of development and is expected to be coming to the US and Canada in the second quarter of this year.Unfortunately the pricing is not announced yet!