> I think nVidia SHIELD offers a similar pitch, but I don't know how popular it is. The Shield itself has been fairly successful from what I know, especially i

> I think nVidia SHIELD offers a similar pitch, but I don't know how popular it is. The Shield itself has been fairly successful from what I know, especially if you consider its fairly high price compared to other Android TV boxes. I have one and can say I really like it, Nvidia has been really committed and provided constant updates on top of a pretty stable hardware platform. Game streaming on it works pretty well and has been moderately successful. It works smoothly and latency is low enough to play all but the twitchiest of games. The biggest advantage is that for all the games I've seen you can play them as long as you already own them on Steam, you don't have to purchase them twice (in addition to supporting native Steam in-home streaming now I think). The selection of games available to play on Nvidia's streaming service isn't colossal, but they have a constant trickle of popular games so there's plenty of things you'd actually want to play (and you get a pretty generous range of older-but-good games to play for free with the Shield). I bought mine as a media player, but the game streaming is a very nice perk.