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all right ladies and gentlemen you want a game on the go well the Nvidia shield tablet is an alternative there's also the PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo 3ds if you remember the Nvidia shield from last year it was a handheld like this with a 5-inch screen on top now you've got a tablet it's an 8-inch tablet with a Tegra k1 processor what do you need to know about that it's extremely powerful 192 core graphics that theoretically could provide the graphic capability of something like an Xbox 360 but the gaming support right now is limited to Android games that are supporting the k1 how many of those are there very few Nvidia has about maybe eight over the course of the next few months and the rest of the gaming capabilities are basically about what you can play on Google Play this is a an Android 4.4 tablet it also has 16 gigs of storage 2 gigs of RAM and it's got a micro SD card slot for 128 gigs extra but you can also pay for a 399 version which has 32 gigs of storage and LTE not badly priced for an 8 inch tablet 1900 by 1200 display but really what you're looking for here is the gaming this can connect and stream PC games with the play on PCs that have certain levels of Nvidia graphics you have to enable the game streaming and boom you're playing with a game controller and streaming a limited set but a 100 plus PC games on this but you got to buy this $60 controller otherwise it's gonna ask you to connect it now it feels ok kind of like an Xbox controller even as a microphone and this thing supports twitch now if you're a hardcore PC gamer the idea is that you could stream games to this tablet if you prop it up on a table and play right here anywhere in your house or you could connect it to your TV with HDMI and play in any other room now why would you not want to just carry your PC into the other room well maybe it's gigantic or maybe you just don't feel like it that's the ideas this is meant as a other room streaming device but do you want to connect the tablet really to your TV or do you want to maybe use something like a little roku type connected streaming puck that who knows might come in the future work with the k1 processor to down the road and maybe that's a better solution and again you get this tablet for $2.99 but this cool attachable stand cover that's $40 sold separately and the controller $60 sold separately so it's $100 here for pretty essential things to prop your tablet up and play games on it the Nvidia shield tablet is one of the best performing Android 8-inch tablets out there but the gaming stuff still feels a little bit half-baked I'm Scotts time with CNET looking at the Nvidia shield tablet available now