UPDATE: IT'S OUT!!!!
Get it over here:
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[Here's the original OP post]
This is honestly impressive considering this unofficial Android port already has support for audio, WiFi and GPU acceleration for games and apps like Google Chrome and video players. These means that certain games ported to the Shield like Half Life 2, Portal and Borderlands are already playable. In fact, Portal has already been confirmed to work natively with no fancy configs or doodads, here it is in action
Normal Android games like PUBG Mobile or Honkai Impact 3 will work perfectly. This isn't even mentioning the various different Rockstar console games ported to Android like Bully, GTA III, VC and SA that I'm excited to get my hands on. These breakthroughs have also opened up the massive world of game streaming.
Yes, that's actually Overwatch running through NVIDIA Gamestream. What's cool about this is that it's not even Moonlight or anything, it's the official NVIDIA solution done using "Shieldifier" effectively tricking the NVIDIA apps into thinking your Switch is actually a SHIELD TV. This lets you run native SHIELD TV games like MGS3 if you wanted to. You can also play your Steam games on your Switch through the Steam Link Android app if you don't have an NVIDIA card. GeForce NOW works too which opens the Switch up to hundreds of different games that'll probably never be ported to the system. See Tomb Raider 2013 running.
What else does this mean? i'm copy+pasting this bit from wololo since it's pretty succinct
Get it over here:
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[Here's the original OP post]
This is honestly impressive considering this unofficial Android port already has support for audio, WiFi and GPU acceleration for games and apps like Google Chrome and video players. These means that certain games ported to the Shield like Half Life 2, Portal and Borderlands are already playable. In fact, Portal has already been confirmed to work natively with no fancy configs or doodads, here it is in action
Normal Android games like PUBG Mobile or Honkai Impact 3 will work perfectly. This isn't even mentioning the various different Rockstar console games ported to Android like Bully, GTA III, VC and SA that I'm excited to get my hands on. These breakthroughs have also opened up the massive world of game streaming.
Yes, that's actually Overwatch running through NVIDIA Gamestream. What's cool about this is that it's not even Moonlight or anything, it's the official NVIDIA solution done using "Shieldifier" effectively tricking the NVIDIA apps into thinking your Switch is actually a SHIELD TV. This lets you run native SHIELD TV games like MGS3 if you wanted to. You can also play your Steam games on your Switch through the Steam Link Android app if you don't have an NVIDIA card. GeForce NOW works too which opens the Switch up to hundreds of different games that'll probably never be ported to the system. See Tomb Raider 2013 running.
What else does this mean? i'm copy+pasting this bit from wololo since it's pretty succinct
- An Android experience that is much smoother and compatible with many more applications
- The ability to play Android games on the Switch such as PUBG Mobile, Shadowgun, Tekken Mobile and other titles Undoubtedly, the Switch would be able to run a lot of Android games pretty well thanks to its Nvidia Maxwell-based GPU
- Turning your Switch into a better media consumption device since Android has much better applications than Horizon OS for doing such stuff
- The DraStic emulator (DS) and other Android-exclusive software will become runnable on the Switch
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