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our 2013 CES coverage is powered by ford go further what's up everyone jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here live from CES 2013 yesterday we had the pleasure of going to invidious press conference where amongst a slew of other announcements they took the wraps off the extremely well kept secret of project shield on to give my thoughts and impressions on project shield on Tegra 4 that's powering it and all kinds of other stuff that goes into that crazy handheld gaming controller platform go and get start project shield Fuji as it might not know is essentially a reference platform for tegra 4 of course the follow-up to tagra 3 still has the same four main cpu cores with the fifth low power course or can do most background tasks the big deal though is of course with LTE connectivity and a 72 core GPU can also output 4k video which is really incredible so what project shield is essentially it's an entire tablet in a controller I think of your typical controller for an xbox 360 it looks very similar to that it's got console ask buttons and console quality grade buttons and it's got a built-in 5-inch screen you can play all of your games from the TegraZone these have to be Tegra optimized game it's really get the full experience right on your device of course you can wirelessly fling it right to a television of course you can use a wired connection as well and push that right off to the TV so we saw a few examples of games that were made just for the tablet android games at least they looked very impressive they were showing on a 4k TV and of course we couldn't show you what the 4k TV looked like cuz you know just over twitter or youtube not to do any justice but it looked absolutely beautiful but some of the cool secret sauce is actually constrain games right from your pc to your shield device so if you play a game on steam let's say you play left 4 dead 2 for example you could play that right on your handheld no matter where you go so it's pretty cool you're always bringing your pc games with you mobile as opposed to bring your mobile games onto your pc it's a really cool new thing other than invidious trying to do so one thing they didn't announce was price or release date sure lends me to believe that maybe it's going to be more of a reference platform maybe it won't hit the market they seemed very jazzed about it though and really what it's going to do but I'm still not sure that it's going to have an itch I was checking out the comments on TechnoBuffalo Kerry Wood is calling it the xperia play 2 point 0 and a lot of ways yeah it's true it is the xperia play but i guess you could say the same thing for the ps3 and xbox 360 being the new version of the Atari Jaguar yeah they're both consoles but seriously way above the competition we're trying to figure out what to categorize it under we're writing it up should go into our products pages a tablet is it something else is a gaming console really weren't sure it's sort of a hybrid I do love a few things of videos done first they made it totally open it is running completely unskilled on stock Android with one push that shield button you go from the TegraZone store right to unskinny an adulterated unmess with android which is very nice you get that same Android experience you can fling that right to your TV and use that as well also they use completely unpretentious tree standard stuff so hdmi micro USB for charging batteries already built in so you get 5 to 10 hours don't have to lug around that extra power brick I'm not sure what pricing again is going to be if there's gonna be a huge market for it but this is an example of what Tegra 4 can do really very cool to see what do you guys think excited about project sealed you're not excited Tegra 4 you super jazz about it I love to hear what you guys have to think of course check out all the CES 2013 coverage at technobuffalo calm jon rettinger the next video thanks to ford for powering our CES coverage