Playing Skyrim on the ASUS Transformer Prime [CES 2012]
The NVIDIA Powered ASUS Transformer Prime is a quad-core Tegra 3 beast and we just found out last night it’s getting the Android 4.0 update. While that’s certainly a reason to rejoice, gamers might find the following even more exciting: at CES 2012 we played Skyrim on the Transformer Prime.
NVIDIA has a new application called Splashtop THD which enables the magic you see in the video above. It only works when you combine an NVIDIA GeForce powered desktop computer with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 tablet, but the combination is impressive to say the least. Splashtop packetizes the video and delivers it via Wi-Fi to the Transformer Prime’s screen with minimal loss in video quality. With an XBOX remote connected directly to the Transformer Prime, we were playing Skyrim on our Android tablet as if it were no big deal.
There was obviously some loss in frame rate and the video wasn’t perfect. All the buttons didn’t map properly either, which we found out when unable to change perspective, causing a dragon to totally toasted our skulls. But don’t worry, we hacked up some villagers to make up for it.
At any rate, the fact that this is Skyrim running on an Android Tablet is generally cool. It’s no surprise NVIDIA is the company showing it off, either… these guys are gaming gurus. We also played several other games on the Transformer Prime, including GTA3 and multi-player Shadowgun, using an XBOX controller as input. Can’t wait to see what else NVIDIA has in 2012!