Buying a Sheild today and have a question regarding kodi.

Sorry if this isn’t in the correct section.
I’ll be purchasing a nvidia shield today, kinda excited as I passed my fire stick onto my sister last night. My question is, do I have to run Kodi 17 on the shield or would I have the option to download 16.0 out the box. I only ask because I been reading a lot of bad reviews regarding 17 and would like kinda stick to 16.0 if if possible. Thanks for any info and once again sorry if i posted this in the wrong section.