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 Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:00 pm Post subject: NVIDIA Shield Gets a Launch Date and a Price Cut: June 27th |
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Earlier this morning NVIDIA sent out a press release offing an update on the launch of their forthcoming handheld console, Shield. When Shield was first made available for pre-orders back in May, NVIDIA announced that the console would ship in late June with a price tag of $349. Today’s press release serves as an update for that, giving shield a proper launch date and a new price.</p>
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Shield’s official launch date will be a week from now, June 27<sup>th</sup>, meeting NVIDIA’s original goal of shipping in late June (if only just). This is presumably for pre-orders; we don’t have any idea on what the launch quantity is like, or consequently whether there will be any Shield consoles available for “walk-in” sales on the 27<sup>th</sup>.</p>
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NVIDIA SHIELD</td>
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Shield</td>
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SoC</td>
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NVIDIA Tegra 4 - 1.9 GHz</td>
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Display</td>
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5-inch 720p "Retinal" Display</td>
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RAM</td>
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2 GB LPDDR3</td>
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Wireless Connectivity</td>
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2x2:2 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi + BT 3.0, GPS</td>
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Storage</td>
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16 GB NAND, microSD Expansion</td>
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microUSB 2.0, mini-HDMI, 3.5mm headphone</td>
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OS</td>
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Android 4.2.1, Updates from NVIDIA</td>
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Price</td>
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<strong>$299.00</strong>, Shipping June 27th</td>
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Meanwhile the bigger news is that NVIDIA has also give shield a price cut ahead of its launch. Originally set to launch at $349, Shield is now launching for $50 less at $299, with all pre-orders being updated to reflect the reduced price. NVIDIA’s official rationale for this move is that “we’ve heard from thousands of gamers that if the price was $299, we’d have a home run.” Though with the announcement last week that Sony will launch their Playstation 4 console at $399 likely had some kind of impact on this, as it would have left a relatively small $50 price delta between the two consoles. Price was also a recurring complaint in the comments on our hands-on look at Shield earlier this month. Regardless of the reason however, we certainly have no objection to NVIDIA lowering the price of Shield.</p>
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Wrapping things up, we’ll have a full review on Shield after it launches next week. So in the meantime stay tuned.</p>
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Source: AnandTech
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