History of video games/Platforms/Nvidia Shield Portable

History
The Nvidia Shield Portable was launched in 2013 at a cost of $299. At the time of launch the system was simply known as the Nvidia Shield.

The Nvidia Shield Tablet was announced in 2014.

Compute
A Nvidia Tegra 4 SoC with a quad core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU clocked 1.9GHz at powers the Nvidia Shield Portable

The Shield Portable has 2 gigabytes of RAM.

Hardware
The Nvidia Shield Portable has 16 gigabytes of built in storage, as well as a microSDXC card slot.

The Nvidia Shield Portable has a five inch screen with a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels and multitouch support. The system also has a micro-HDMI port for AV out.

The system has a microphone, GPS, a three axis accelerometer and three axis gyroscope.

The Shield Portable has 2x2 Mimo b/g/n WiFi, and Bluetooth 3.0.

The Nvidia Shield Portable has a 28.8 watt hour battery.

Unusually for handheld gaming devices of the time, the shield sported an ergonomic grip design.

Software
The system was shipped with version 4.2 of the Android operating system.

Portal
A port of Portal was released for the Nvidia Shield Portable.

External Resources

 * Archived version of Official Website in 2014