[ajmurmann]

I was waiting for over half a year for the next shield and am very disappointed it's a tablet. I liked the original shield because it allows to stream PC games throughout my house, so that I can play them on my couch or in bed. The other awesome thing is playing emulators on the go. With the tablet I can't do any of those properly, because the controller is not built in and I need to have a place to set up the tablet. So I can't play it on the train or anywhere in my house excepts my desk or my dining room table. If you already have a tablet (or 2 in my case) and wanted this as a gaming device, then that's a bummer. It's too bad. Everything that targets hardcore gamers fails.

[staz]

same feeling here, I don't understand the switch, the interesting thing about the Shield was the form factor. Now it only provide a moderate aventage over existing tablet + Xbox controller

[cwyers]

It's not a switch. The point of the Shield line is to create a market for Tegra chips. Adding a second form factor is an attempt to broaden their potential customer base, and more directly compete with traditional tablets. The original Shield is still for sale. (I love mine, and I am certainly open to buying another revision of the original shield with a K1 at some point, but this isn't in place of that.)