Major Nintendo franchises are coming to the NVIDIA Shield, in China

Who'd have thought it? Major entries in some of Nintendo's biggest franchises are launching on the NVIDIA Shield. That's right, Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Punch-Out, among other Wii (and possibly GameCube) games, are coming to NVIDIA's set-top-box in China. All games will be running in native 1080p instead of their original resolution of 480p

The Shield, which hit store shelves in China today, is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra X1 chip like the one found in the Nintendo Switch, which could partially ...