WEBVTT 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:05.360 Oh, how can I help you? Or you're looking for tech news? 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:08.840 Yeah, sure, that's in the other file. One second. 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:16.540 The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 might allow Switch 1 consoles 00:00:16.540 --> 00:00:19.880 to be used as a controller and second display 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:23.680 in essentially the same way that the Wii U gamepad was used 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:29.160 until Nintendo forced the low selling console to commit Sudoku out of shame. 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.100 Sudoku, that is not the right word. I told somebody's got it. 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:38.980 This rumor comes from Ecstasis, who has provided some fairly reliable leaked info 00:00:38.980 --> 00:00:42.940 in the past, but if you still think it sounds a little too out there, 00:00:42.940 --> 00:00:49.180 consider that Nintendo's tried this using previous consoles as controllers thing multiple times. 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 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 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, 00:01:06.420 --> 00:01:10.860 gaming gamers, gam, gam, games, entirely. 00:01:10.860 --> 00:01:13.900 We'll have to wait to see whether this leak is as legit 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:19.340 as the virtual game card system Nintendo officially announced at their direct this week, 00:01:19.340 --> 00:01:24.780 which basically lets you treat digital games like physical game cards, sort of. 00:01:24.820 --> 00:01:27.980 The feature will let you eject a digital game 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:31.540 and then digitally load it on another console 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 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:40.580 of your family group for 14 days. While it's not nearly as flexible 00:01:40.580 --> 00:01:43.580 as the game sharing features on, say, Steam, 00:01:43.580 --> 00:01:47.500 it's a whole lot better than Nintendo not letting you share games at all 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:51.140 and then suing you for tweeting a Mario picture if you ask. 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 00:01:56.660 --> 00:02:02.420 has told Insider Gaming they're worried about not having enough Switch 2 stock at launch. 00:02:02.420 --> 00:02:06.540 Me, I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about the Legend of Zelda movie 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:10.540 that Nintendo confirmed is coming out on March 26th, 2027, 00:02:10.540 --> 00:02:14.700 starring Chris Pratt as Link. That's a joke, hopefully. 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:17.900 What would he even sound like? Chris will just do the Mario voice again. 00:02:17.900 --> 00:02:23.100 Hey, you gotta save another princess. Looks kind of the same, to be honest. 00:02:23.100 --> 00:02:27.940 Reviews are up for the laptop version of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 GPU. 00:02:27.940 --> 00:02:31.580 And even if you don't like that it's called a 5090, 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:35.500 despite having less than half the cores of the desktop version, reviewers, 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:40.660 including PC Mag, have confirmed it's the new fastest mobile GPU. 00:02:41.700 --> 00:02:45.780 I thought if AMD sold enough 9070 XTs, 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:48.780 they would make that not true, but here we are. 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:53.220 Yeah, despite Team Red's mid-ranger knocking its launch out of the park, 00:02:53.220 --> 00:02:57.980 people are still telling their moms to buy the green ones. 00:02:57.980 --> 00:03:01.620 German retailer Alternate was even briefly selling 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. 00:03:08.380 --> 00:03:12.700 And while initial reports this week of shelves at Micro Center being filled 00:03:12.700 --> 00:03:16.020 with unsold 5090 stock kind of made it seem 00:03:16.020 --> 00:03:22.740 like gamers were finally drawing the line at paying $3,719 for a graphics card, 00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:25.860 turns out those cards sold out too. 00:03:25.860 --> 00:03:29.860 Gamers, what are we doing? What would GamerGamGam think? 00:03:29.860 --> 00:03:33.580 Google has apparently solved the component quality issue 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:38.220 that caused the company to delay the launch of its mid-range Pixel 9a smartphone 00:03:38.220 --> 00:03:42.820 directly after officially revealing it. This is for you, but not right now. 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, 00:03:47.740 --> 00:03:51.420 Canada and the UK, April 14th in much of Europe, 00:03:51.420 --> 00:03:55.260 April 16th in some Asian countries, except Japan. 00:03:55.260 --> 00:03:58.340 Don't ask when Google literally can't even think 00:03:58.340 --> 00:04:02.260 about Japan right now. I'm so busy. As for why they delay the release 00:04:02.260 --> 00:04:07.620 in a statement given to press, Google started right out with rumors and speculation 00:04:07.620 --> 00:04:09.860 regarding this delay are false. 00:04:10.900 --> 00:04:14.700 Okay, we didn't say anything. They are false! 00:04:14.700 --> 00:04:18.300 Geez. Unless you've speculated that the 9a was delayed 00:04:18.300 --> 00:04:23.260 due to a passive component not meeting Google's rigorous quality standards for device longevity 00:04:23.260 --> 00:04:26.460 and so Google just wanted to fix the small number of affected units. 00:04:26.460 --> 00:04:31.700 I mean, if you guessed that, then fine. Oh, you want the quick bits now? 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:35.260 Oh, okay. Those are way in the back one sec. 00:04:39.100 --> 00:04:43.220 What am I doing? YouTube says they're running a small test 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:48.660 where they're turning off notifications for channels a user is subscribed to 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:53.340 if the user hasn't recently interacted with that channel's notifications. 00:04:53.340 --> 00:04:56.460 Now that may sound very dumb to you, 00:04:56.460 --> 00:04:59.740 but the problem is sometimes people don't manage 00:04:59.740 --> 00:05:02.900 their own channel-specific notifications and then they're like, 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 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:11.860 from the YouTube app entirely. And then YouTube has to tell investors 00:05:11.900 --> 00:05:15.700 that you're not engaging. See where they're coming from? 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:19.820 YouTube has to protect you from yourself, not protecting YouTube. 00:05:19.820 --> 00:05:23.020 YouTube says channels that upload infrequently 00:05:23.020 --> 00:05:27.420 won't be affected, so don't worry. Each bomber guy will be fine. 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:31.300 ASUS has unveiled its first AMD B580 motherboard 00:05:31.300 --> 00:05:35.900 with the company's 600 watt GCHPWR connector, 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 00:05:42.580 --> 00:05:48.140 without needing a flimsy cable like your GamerGamGam's PC for the 1950s. 00:05:48.140 --> 00:05:52.820 The board uses ASUS's BTF design, which means all the cables you do need 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 00:05:58.140 --> 00:06:01.900 system to protect from repeated GPU insertions. 00:06:01.900 --> 00:06:05.020 So your card won't be damaged if you start every gaming session 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. 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:13.420 Hey, why don't we add a new feed tab in Facebook 00:06:13.420 --> 00:06:17.180 that only displays content posted by your friends? 00:06:17.180 --> 00:06:20.580 The company says the feature will bring the magic of friends 00:06:20.580 --> 00:06:23.700 back to Facebook, because along with your friends, 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, 00:06:28.700 --> 00:06:33.100 yeah, we know we've been the ones destroying our own platforms with AI slop, 00:06:33.100 --> 00:06:36.860 but what if you didn't have to deal with all of that garbage, 00:06:36.900 --> 00:06:40.020 which we will continue to encourage. That's innovation. 00:06:40.020 --> 00:06:44.900 And shortly after OpenAI showed off chatGPT's upgraded image generator, 00:06:44.900 --> 00:06:50.800 people discovered it was particularly good at creating and modifying images to look like stills 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.140 from a studio Ghibli film. Ghibli? Don't think so. 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 00:06:59.780 --> 00:07:04.780 their GPUs are melting. So OpenAI is adding temporary rate limits 00:07:04.780 --> 00:07:10.140 on image generation. Also, anime image filters have been around for a while. 00:07:10.140 --> 00:07:15.220 And this one is making studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki cry, please. 00:07:15.220 --> 00:07:19.300 Please come back for more tech news on Monday or you'll make me cry. 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. 00:07:24.260 --> 00:07:26.740 So catch 22.