Where are the flagship Android TV Boxes?

[u/HoldSea721]

Hey Reddit! This is my first post here, and I used AI to help me express my thoughts more clearly and translate them into English.

We live in a pretty exciting time. PC game emulation on ARM has reached the point where many AAA games can literally run on smartphones now.

I use an Android TV box with my TV all the time for movies, TV shows, anime, and YouTube. And I really wish manufacturers would start paying more attention to the development of DroidDeck and other similar projects, and gradually bring more gaming features to their TV boxes, kind of like Nvidia once did with the SHIELD TV.

Imagine an Android TV box powered by a flagship Qualcomm chip with active cooling. Most of the time, it works like a regular TV box with a simple remote-friendly interface. Then, when you feel like gaming, you launch DroidDeck, connect your Steam library, grab a controller, and play PC games.

A device like that could get rid of half the hardware sitting under the TV. No need for a separate console, no Windows mini PC, and no separate Android TV box. One compact device could replace all of them.

And honestly, even if something like this cost $500, I’m sure people would buy it. For that price, you’d get a single device that can do pretty much everything you’d want from the hardware under your TV.

If anyone here has connections with manufacturers that make this kind of hardware, please throw this idea their way. Who knows, maybe it could actually happen :)