‘Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves’: Nvidia’s senior VP of engineering says that ‘everybody who worked at Nvidia in the early days really wanted to make a gaming console’

I sometimes forget about the existence of Nvidia’s Shield devices, in all their various iterations. Shield TV, however, has been with us now for over a decade in some form or another—and according to Nvidia, the Android-powered set-top box is far from done yet.

In an interview with Ars Technica, Nvidia’s senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, talks in reverence about the Shield devices and what they mean to the company. Like all good ideas, it seems, Bell says the Shield project came from an enthusiastic group of engineers: