1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,360 Oh, how can I help you? Or you're looking for tech news? 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,840 Yeah, sure, that's in the other file. One second. 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,540 The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 might allow Switch 1 consoles 4 00:00:16,540 --> 00:00:19,880 to be used as a controller and second display 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,680 in essentially the same way that the Wii U gamepad was used 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:29,160 until Nintendo forced the low selling console to commit Sudoku out of shame. 7 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,100 Sudoku, that is not the right word. I told somebody's got it. 8 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:38,980 This rumor comes from Ecstasis, who has provided some fairly reliable leaked info 9 00:00:38,980 --> 00:00:42,940 in the past, but if you still think it sounds a little too out there, 10 00:00:42,940 --> 00:00:49,180 consider that Nintendo's tried this using previous consoles as controllers thing multiple times. 11 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:54,420 You could use a 2DS or a 3DS as a controller for Super Smash Bros for Wii U 12 00:00:54,420 --> 00:00:59,820 if you had the 3DS version of the game and Nintendo released an attachment and a cable 13 00:00:59,820 --> 00:01:06,420 that will let you use a Game Boy Advance as a controller to play Game Boy games on the GameCube, 14 00:01:06,420 --> 00:01:10,860 gaming gamers, gam, gam, games, entirely. 15 00:01:10,860 --> 00:01:13,900 We'll have to wait to see whether this leak is as legit 16 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:19,340 as the virtual game card system Nintendo officially announced at their direct this week, 17 00:01:19,340 --> 00:01:24,780 which basically lets you treat digital games like physical game cards, sort of. 18 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:27,980 The feature will let you eject a digital game 19 00:01:27,980 --> 00:01:31,540 and then digitally load it on another console 20 00:01:31,540 --> 00:01:35,700 that you're also signed in on. And then you can also lend your games to members 21 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:40,580 of your family group for 14 days. While it's not nearly as flexible 22 00:01:40,580 --> 00:01:43,580 as the game sharing features on, say, Steam, 23 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:47,500 it's a whole lot better than Nintendo not letting you share games at all 24 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:51,140 and then suing you for tweeting a Mario picture if you ask. 25 00:01:51,140 --> 00:01:56,660 Regardless, the Switch 2 is probably gonna sell like hotcakes and at least one large US retailer 26 00:01:56,660 --> 00:02:02,420 has told Insider Gaming they're worried about not having enough Switch 2 stock at launch. 27 00:02:02,420 --> 00:02:06,540 Me, I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about the Legend of Zelda movie 28 00:02:06,540 --> 00:02:10,540 that Nintendo confirmed is coming out on March 26th, 2027, 29 00:02:10,540 --> 00:02:14,700 starring Chris Pratt as Link. That's a joke, hopefully. 30 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,900 What would he even sound like? Chris will just do the Mario voice again. 31 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:23,100 Hey, you gotta save another princess. Looks kind of the same, to be honest. 32 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:27,940 Reviews are up for the laptop version of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 GPU. 33 00:02:27,940 --> 00:02:31,580 And even if you don't like that it's called a 5090, 34 00:02:31,580 --> 00:02:35,500 despite having less than half the cores of the desktop version, reviewers, 35 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:40,660 including PC Mag, have confirmed it's the new fastest mobile GPU. 36 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:45,780 I thought if AMD sold enough 9070 XTs, 37 00:02:45,780 --> 00:02:48,780 they would make that not true, but here we are. 38 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:53,220 Yeah, despite Team Red's mid-ranger knocking its launch out of the park, 39 00:02:53,220 --> 00:02:57,980 people are still telling their moms to buy the green ones. 40 00:02:57,980 --> 00:03:01,620 German retailer Alternate was even briefly selling 41 00:03:01,620 --> 00:03:08,380 one of the defective RTX 5090s with a lower amount of ROP units for the truly desperate. 42 00:03:08,380 --> 00:03:12,700 And while initial reports this week of shelves at Micro Center being filled 43 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:16,020 with unsold 5090 stock kind of made it seem 44 00:03:16,020 --> 00:03:22,740 like gamers were finally drawing the line at paying $3,719 for a graphics card, 45 00:03:22,740 --> 00:03:25,860 turns out those cards sold out too. 46 00:03:25,860 --> 00:03:29,860 Gamers, what are we doing? What would GamerGamGam think? 47 00:03:29,860 --> 00:03:33,580 Google has apparently solved the component quality issue 48 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:38,220 that caused the company to delay the launch of its mid-range Pixel 9a smartphone 49 00:03:38,220 --> 00:03:42,820 directly after officially revealing it. This is for you, but not right now. 50 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:47,740 Google has now confirmed release dates for the phone which will launch on April 10th in the US, 51 00:03:47,740 --> 00:03:51,420 Canada and the UK, April 14th in much of Europe, 52 00:03:51,420 --> 00:03:55,260 April 16th in some Asian countries, except Japan. 53 00:03:55,260 --> 00:03:58,340 Don't ask when Google literally can't even think 54 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:02,260 about Japan right now. I'm so busy. As for why they delay the release 55 00:04:02,260 --> 00:04:07,620 in a statement given to press, Google started right out with rumors and speculation 56 00:04:07,620 --> 00:04:09,860 regarding this delay are false. 57 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:14,700 Okay, we didn't say anything. They are false! 58 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:18,300 Geez. Unless you've speculated that the 9a was delayed 59 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:23,260 due to a passive component not meeting Google's rigorous quality standards for device longevity 60 00:04:23,260 --> 00:04:26,460 and so Google just wanted to fix the small number of affected units. 61 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:31,700 I mean, if you guessed that, then fine. Oh, you want the quick bits now? 62 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:35,260 Oh, okay. Those are way in the back one sec. 63 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:43,220 What am I doing? YouTube says they're running a small test 64 00:04:43,220 --> 00:04:48,660 where they're turning off notifications for channels a user is subscribed to 65 00:04:48,660 --> 00:04:53,340 if the user hasn't recently interacted with that channel's notifications. 66 00:04:53,340 --> 00:04:56,460 Now that may sound very dumb to you, 67 00:04:56,460 --> 00:04:59,740 but the problem is sometimes people don't manage 68 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:02,900 their own channel-specific notifications and then they're like, 69 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:07,440 oh, why am I getting so many YouTube notifications? And then they go and they turn off all notifications 70 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,860 from the YouTube app entirely. And then YouTube has to tell investors 71 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:15,700 that you're not engaging. See where they're coming from? 72 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:19,820 YouTube has to protect you from yourself, not protecting YouTube. 73 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:23,020 YouTube says channels that upload infrequently 74 00:05:23,020 --> 00:05:27,420 won't be affected, so don't worry. Each bomber guy will be fine. 75 00:05:27,420 --> 00:05:31,300 ASUS has unveiled its first AMD B580 motherboard 76 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:35,900 with the company's 600 watt GCHPWR connector, 77 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:42,580 which is positioned in line with the top PCIe slot, so compatible GPUs can slot in and receive power 78 00:05:42,580 --> 00:05:48,140 without needing a flimsy cable like your GamerGamGam's PC for the 1950s. 79 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:52,820 The board uses ASUS's BTF design, which means all the cables you do need 80 00:05:52,820 --> 00:05:58,140 are plugged in to the back of the motherboard, and it's also featuring the company's updated Q release 81 00:05:58,140 --> 00:06:01,900 system to protect from repeated GPU insertions. 82 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:05,020 So your card won't be damaged if you start every gaming session 83 00:06:05,020 --> 00:06:09,620 by pulling it out and blowing on it. It sometimes it helps. Meta had a great idea this week. 84 00:06:09,620 --> 00:06:13,420 Hey, why don't we add a new feed tab in Facebook 85 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:17,180 that only displays content posted by your friends? 86 00:06:17,180 --> 00:06:20,580 The company says the feature will bring the magic of friends 87 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:23,700 back to Facebook, because along with your friends, 88 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:28,700 the magic has been taken a little bit of a break. It's kind of surreal to see Meta being like, 89 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:33,100 yeah, we know we've been the ones destroying our own platforms with AI slop, 90 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:36,860 but what if you didn't have to deal with all of that garbage, 91 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:40,020 which we will continue to encourage. That's innovation. 92 00:06:40,020 --> 00:06:44,900 And shortly after OpenAI showed off chatGPT's upgraded image generator, 93 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:50,800 people discovered it was particularly good at creating and modifying images to look like stills 94 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,140 from a studio Ghibli film. Ghibli? Don't think so. 95 00:06:54,140 --> 00:06:59,780 That's fun. If you're one of those people though, maybe take a break because CEO Sam Altman says 96 00:06:59,780 --> 00:07:04,780 their GPUs are melting. So OpenAI is adding temporary rate limits 97 00:07:04,780 --> 00:07:10,140 on image generation. Also, anime image filters have been around for a while. 98 00:07:10,140 --> 00:07:15,220 And this one is making studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki cry, please. 99 00:07:15,220 --> 00:07:19,300 Please come back for more tech news on Monday or you'll make me cry. 100 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:24,260 I won't let you see though unless you come back, which will actually prevent me from crying. 101 00:07:24,260 --> 00:07:26,740 So catch 22.