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The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 might allow Switch 1 consoles
to be used as a controller and second display
in essentially the same way that the Wii U gamepad was used
until Nintendo forced the low selling console to commit Sudoku out of shame.
Sudoku, that is not the right word. I told somebody's got it.
This rumor comes from Ecstasis, who has provided some fairly reliable leaked info
in the past, but if you still think it sounds a little too out there,
consider that Nintendo's tried this using previous consoles as controllers thing multiple times.
You could use a 2DS or a 3DS as a controller for Super Smash Bros for Wii U
if you had the 3DS version of the game and Nintendo released an attachment and a cable
that will let you use a Game Boy Advance as a controller to play Game Boy games on the GameCube,
gaming gamers, gam, gam, games, entirely.
We'll have to wait to see whether this leak is as legit
as the virtual game card system Nintendo officially announced at their direct this week,
which basically lets you treat digital games like physical game cards, sort of.
The feature will let you eject a digital game
and then digitally load it on another console
that you're also signed in on. And then you can also lend your games to members
of your family group for 14 days. While it's not nearly as flexible
as the game sharing features on, say, Steam,
it's a whole lot better than Nintendo not letting you share games at all
and then suing you for tweeting a Mario picture if you ask.
Regardless, the Switch 2 is probably gonna sell like hotcakes and at least one large US retailer
has told Insider Gaming they're worried about not having enough Switch 2 stock at launch.
Me, I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about the Legend of Zelda movie
that Nintendo confirmed is coming out on March 26th, 2027,
starring Chris Pratt as Link. That's a joke, hopefully.
What would he even sound like? Chris will just do the Mario voice again.
Hey, you gotta save another princess. Looks kind of the same, to be honest.
Reviews are up for the laptop version of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 GPU.
And even if you don't like that it's called a 5090,
despite having less than half the cores of the desktop version, reviewers,
including PC Mag, have confirmed it's the new fastest mobile GPU.
I thought if AMD sold enough 9070 XTs,
they would make that not true, but here we are.
Yeah, despite Team Red's mid-ranger knocking its launch out of the park,
people are still telling their moms to buy the green ones.
German retailer Alternate was even briefly selling
one of the defective RTX 5090s with a lower amount of ROP units for the truly desperate.
And while initial reports this week of shelves at Micro Center being filled
with unsold 5090 stock kind of made it seem
like gamers were finally drawing the line at paying $3,719 for a graphics card,
turns out those cards sold out too.
Gamers, what are we doing? What would GamerGamGam think?
Google has apparently solved the component quality issue
that caused the company to delay the launch of its mid-range Pixel 9a smartphone
directly after officially revealing it. This is for you, but not right now.
Google has now confirmed release dates for the phone which will launch on April 10th in the US,
Canada and the UK, April 14th in much of Europe,
April 16th in some Asian countries, except Japan.
Don't ask when Google literally can't even think
about Japan right now. I'm so busy. As for why they delay the release
in a statement given to press, Google started right out with rumors and speculation
regarding this delay are false.
Okay, we didn't say anything. They are false!
Geez. Unless you've speculated that the 9a was delayed
due to a passive component not meeting Google's rigorous quality standards for device longevity
and so Google just wanted to fix the small number of affected units.
I mean, if you guessed that, then fine. Oh, you want the quick bits now?
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What am I doing? YouTube says they're running a small test
where they're turning off notifications for channels a user is subscribed to
if the user hasn't recently interacted with that channel's notifications.
Now that may sound very dumb to you,
but the problem is sometimes people don't manage
their own channel-specific notifications and then they're like,
oh, why am I getting so many YouTube notifications? And then they go and they turn off all notifications
from the YouTube app entirely. And then YouTube has to tell investors
that you're not engaging. See where they're coming from?
YouTube has to protect you from yourself, not protecting YouTube.
YouTube says channels that upload infrequently
won't be affected, so don't worry. Each bomber guy will be fine.
ASUS has unveiled its first AMD B580 motherboard
with the company's 600 watt GCHPWR connector,
which is positioned in line with the top PCIe slot, so compatible GPUs can slot in and receive power
without needing a flimsy cable like your GamerGamGam's PC for the 1950s.
The board uses ASUS's BTF design, which means all the cables you do need
are plugged in to the back of the motherboard, and it's also featuring the company's updated Q release
system to protect from repeated GPU insertions.
So your card won't be damaged if you start every gaming session
by pulling it out and blowing on it. It sometimes it helps. Meta had a great idea this week.
Hey, why don't we add a new feed tab in Facebook
that only displays content posted by your friends?
The company says the feature will bring the magic of friends
back to Facebook, because along with your friends,
the magic has been taken a little bit of a break. It's kind of surreal to see Meta being like,
yeah, we know we've been the ones destroying our own platforms with AI slop,
but what if you didn't have to deal with all of that garbage,
which we will continue to encourage. That's innovation.
And shortly after OpenAI showed off chatGPT's upgraded image generator,
people discovered it was particularly good at creating and modifying images to look like stills
from a studio Ghibli film. Ghibli? Don't think so.
That's fun. If you're one of those people though, maybe take a break because CEO Sam Altman says
their GPUs are melting. So OpenAI is adding temporary rate limits
on image generation. Also, anime image filters have been around for a while.
And this one is making studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki cry, please.
Please come back for more tech news on Monday or you'll make me cry.
I won't let you see though unless you come back, which will actually prevent me from crying.
So catch 22.