Project SHIELD began with an effort to strip gaming down to its most essential component: a great controller. “We wrote all the core software to hook Android games to controllers,” Tony says. “Then we thought ‘Why don’t we just build a device with a great controller built in?”
The first prototype, assembled in early 2012, was little more than a game controller fastened to a smartphone with wood. From that crude beginning, NVIDIA’s team of industrial designers sculpted a device that could fit in a user’s hands. No outsourcing required: NVIDIA has a team of veterans who have already shaped the look of a number of products built around NVIDIA’s processors, such as the drool-worthy GeForce GTX 690.
NVIDIA shows how Project Shield got built
Posted on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 14:03 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
NVIDIA has published a new blog post that illustrates the prototyping process of its upcoming Project Shield handheld gaming device, you can check it out over here.