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The Nvidia Shield Android TV box tries to emulate mainstream game consoles with game-streaming capabilities and an included controller. At CES, Nvidia announced it was pulling another common game console trick — the Shield is shrinking. The new Nvidia Shield is considerably smaller than the last one, and it has a new, more refined controller.

The Shield is where Nvidia is putting all its Android focus lately. It hasn’t released a new variant of the Shield Tablet in more than a year now, and the long-rumored update was quietly cancelled a few months ago. The original Shield handheld gaming device was also a one-off that has never been updated. That leaves the Android TV box version of Shield. It was already the best Android TV device around, and that’ll probably be true of the new one as well; it’s extremely similar.

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