Nvidia’s Shield TVs are known to be among the best multimedia boxes thanks to their power and functionality. One of these is about to be removed: GameStream. This makes it possible to broadcast a video game in 4K at 60 fps on a television equipped with a Shield TV, said game being rendered by the PC equipped with a GeForce GTX or RTX graphics card, and the video stream passing through the local network.
Nvidia plans to put an end to GameStream in mid-February by updating the Nvidia Games app present on the Shield. The FAQ published for the occasion specifies that GameStream will work until this date and that users who refrain from updating their Shield will still be able to benefit from it, but without any guarantee of operation.
If you are a fan of GameStream, Nvidia advises you to migrate to the Steam Link functionality integrated into Steam and which offers the same possibilities, although limited to the games present in your Steam library. Alternative, the Moonlight application based on an open source implementation of the protocol used by GameStream.
With such a decision, Nvidia will force fans of PC gaming on TV to look elsewhere to maintain their habits. That’s good, Nvidia has a paid solution for them: GeForce Now from €9.99/month.