Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 46.5% YoY to ~$1.65B, vs. ~$1.92B est., net profit down 55.3% YoY to ~$536M, and Switch sales down 46% YoY to 2.1M units
Here's What We Know About The Switch's Successor Evgeny Obedkov / Game World Observer : Lack of new major games causes Nintendo's Q1 revenue to fall 46.5%, with Switch continuing to slide TechRadar : ...
Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues
here's where to get it Robert Anderson / IGN : Sony's First PS5 Sale Debuts with Attractive Price Drops in the UK and Beyond Matthew Humphries / PCMag : Sony Blows Microsoft Out of the Water, Tops 40 ...
Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, double the 10M figure that Microsoft shared in April 2022
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Sony plans to ramp up PlayStation 5 production as supply chain issues ease, and a radical broadening of its game portfolio, including more PC and mobile titles
Horizon Call of the Mountain. 🤩 https://www.theverge.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Sony's PlayStation push for PC continues. Expect to see a lot more PlayStation games on PC in the next few years ...
Nvidia extends its crypto mining limits to newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards, which will be labeled “Lite Hash Rate”
here's how Sam Grant / Coin Journal : Nvidia Stripping Crypto Mining Capacity from its RTX Cards Katharine Castle / Rock, Paper, Shotgun : The rest of Nvidia's RTX 30 GPUs are getting an anti-cryptomi...
Microsoft's head of IR says Xbox will be in short supply through at least June, after it sold every unit it had last quarter and topped $5B in gaming revenue
Microsoft reveals when shortage will subside Tweets: Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Microsoft says it has sold every Xbox it has, but Xbox Series X will be in short supply until at least June. It sounds li...
Microsoft says Minecraft has now topped 200M sales, up from 100M in 2016, with 126M monthly players; Minecraft saw a 25% increase in new players last month
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Microsoft has seen a new daily record of 2.7B meeting minutes in Teams, up 200% from 900M minutes in mid-March, and video call usage grew by 1,000%+ in March
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Sources: Apple Music has been growing at a monthly rate of 2.6% to 3% and had 28M US users in Feb., compared to Spotify's 26M US users and growth of 1.5% to 2%
Apple Music overtakes Spotify … Yoni Heisler / BGR : Apple Music now has more subscribers in the US than Spotify Jack Purcher / Patently Apple : The Momentum is Shifting as Apple Music overtakes Spoti...
As Intel looks for its next CEO, its traditional chips business is troubled by delays and the firm is chasing competitors in GPUs ideal for AI computing
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