Nvidia pushed a new update for its Shield streaming device yesterday, with a number of new features and enhancements. At CES, the company had announced a refreshed Shield TV, with Google Assistant integration, 4K streaming support, an updated Games application, a small, plug-in microphone that tethers to the Shield (allowing the user to trigger Google Assistant from anywhere in the home), and an improved controller design. This latest software update will bring the full feature set of the recently unveiled Shield over to the older variant and updates the system to Android 7.0 (Nougat).
First, there’s a new Nvidia Games app replacing the old Shield Hub software. A short video demonstrating the new interface and layout for titles is below:
The goal of the Nvidia Games app is to unify and simplify various methods of interfacing with your available games. Previously, games were handled according to type and accessed in one of three applications — Shield Games, GeForce Now (game rental and purchase) and GameStream (Nvidia’s game-streaming service). There are now more than 1,000 titles available on Shield TV, and they’ll be handled in this unified app going forward.
