NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Drops Shield Price to $299: Desperate or Brilliant?

Then again, while I wasn’t going to complain if the product actually sold well, last month I did warn we shouldn’t expect Shield to move NVIDIA’s revenue needle in the near future — especially since it’s a relatively niche product, anyway. What’s more, as fellow Fool Evan Niu also recently suggested, one saving grace for NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) if it all hits the fan is that Shield “only required relatively small incremental investments and amounts to a cheap experiment.”

Bigger and better things
Still, I’d like to reiterate placing undue focus on Shield’s sales numbers may be missing the point entirely.

Remember, as I also wrote last month, I think NVIDIA is using Shield “as an avenue through which it can raise awareness for its platform-independent, cloud-based GRID gaming solution.”

And while NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s happy to continue extending its innovation to traditional console-based game platforms, its increasing focus on cloud-based solutions has made its long-term vision more clear by the day. Thanks to GRID, NVIDIA claims:

You’ll soon be able to stream video games from the web just like any other streaming media. GRID renders 3D games in cloud servers, encodes each frame instantly and streams the result to any device with a wired or wireless broadband connection.

The page goes on to highlight users will be able to use GRID to experience “high-quality, low-latency, multi-device gaming on any PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone, or TV.”

With that in mind, do you really think NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is all that concerned if Shield doesn’t immediately take the world by storm? I certainly don’t, because it looks like the folks at NVIDIA have their minds set on much bigger and better things for the gaming industry.

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Fool contributor Steve Symington owns shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA). The Motley Fool recommends NVIDIA.

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