With Android TV 12 around the corner we see how most manufacturers continue with Android TV 9.0, almost no one has updated to Android TV 10, and Nvidia is not going to be the exception.
Nvidia confirmed a few weeks ago through his forum, and in a very silent way, that his Shield TV and Shield TV Pro launched in 2019 will not update to Android 10. The company in its statement has explained the reasons of the decision.
Shield TV does not update to Android 10 because it hardly offers changes
When Google released Android 10 it didn’t pay much attention to its version for Android TV, and barely offered improvements. All were minimal changes that hardly brought news to a user, since basically what Google did was a minor update to Android TV 9.0. That is why manufacturers did not go to great lengths to update their televisions.
In the publication made by the Nvidia staff we can read precisely this reason with a message to reassure your customers:
SHIELD development is still in full swing, we just had a release not long ago. Android 10 was not working for Android TV, so we decided to skip it as the effort was great and there was no essential impact to end users other than the version string change. Beyond that, we didn’t talk about our roadmap in advance, but I can tell you that there is still a lot of development in SHIELD.
As we can see, that Nvidia does not update its Nvidia Shield to Android 10 does not mean that they will not receive new updates. Nvidia reports that the development of Shield continues apace as it has been up to now, releasing a new update every few months, but that at the moment they cannot advance the next updates. Now we will have to wait to see if they jump from Android 9.0 to Android 11 or Android 12, since their latest models are not even two years old, and Nvidia has been updating the first generation of their consoles for five years.
Via | 9to5Google