I had the chance to try out a bit of streaming play with Assassin’s Creed III on the Project Shield system. It was almost unbelieveable to see gameplay and cutscenes running at such a high level of quality on the 5-inch screen, and seeing the mirror image of that action running on a PC screen at the same time had me really appreciating the low latency streaming tech they have running under the hood. It really looked as if the handheld was doing all of the processing. Very impressive.

I'm hoping to get a chance to try out some non-streaming games on the system later this week at CES. 

Seeing as how this handheld will release in an already flooded Android gaming market, and will require Nvidia's GTX cards to enable streaming gameplay, it will likely be a niche product with pretty limited appeal. Still, the streaming technology I saw today was impressive enough that I'm hoping they'll work it into other products.

Stay tuned for more on Project Shield later this week.