Nvidia is really falling flat on their face with these devices I think.
Based on? I have one of the original Shield handhelds and it's an amazing little device... I have multiple emus I can play on it, some cool native android games, plus the streaming works quite well. I was able to sit at work on their crappy WiFi and stream from my home PC and play things like Arkham City and Amazing Spider-Man and played very smoothly. Between emus, android games, and streaming from my PC I have a pretty substantial game library on it. Plus I can also play videos from it to my LED TV nicely as well, and the thing have very solid battery life. I'm not saying it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I've been pretty happy with it's performance.
I think what he means is that nVidia is missing the boat by alienating a potentially large percentage of the gaming population by making the controller a "SHIELD" only device. Yes, I can see that there is a user made driver (albeit without analog it seems) in another post that lets you use this direct with the PC but that's not the point. The point is having an "exclusive" little accessory might encourage people who already own a SHEILD device purchase it, however it does little, if anything at all, to encourage people who do NOT have a SHIELD device to actually purchase one. However, if nVidia straight up included PC drivers to create the ad hoc network and let people use it (see 360 and the PC dongle to understand) with their PC then that might actually encourage
more sales above and beyond what would otherwise occur as a pure SHIELD device.
At this point in the game the controller, by itself, brings very little to the table that I couldn't put together from well established products
and have intrinsic PC support. The very fact nVidia isn't marketing this, at least in part, as an intrinsic PC device is enough for a person to lose interest.
I also think it's pretty sleazy of their marketing to imply this is directly compatible with your PC when it is not meant to be used as such. I had to read the description very carefully to catch on to why they mentioned the PC component at all.
Take a look at the number of "exclusive" accessories that have appeared in the last ten years alone for the Android and iOS. How many of them were actually wildly successful? Not very many.
Best to wait until nVidia gets clued in and whips out PC support or this thing hits the discount shelf.