Nintendo (7974.T) fell roughly 8% after the company raised Switch 2 prices and cut its annual console sales forecast, citing a deepening memory chip supply crisis. The twin headwinds — higher component costs from the AI-driven NAND/DRAM demand surge compounded by Iran-Hormuz supply-chain disruption — squeezed Nintendo's hardware economics ahead of the Switch 2 launch.
A games journalist who was set to review Resident Evil 9 for Videogamer.com has publicly spoken out after being replaced by AI, sparking broader discussion about artificial intelligence displacing human writers in games media.
Players of the classic Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen games on Nintendo Switch have discovered an inconsistent profanity filter that blocks common names like 'Dick' while allowing some genuinely inappropriate words through.
Just days after shutting down Bluepoint Games—the studio behind the beloved Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes—PlayStation took to social media to ask fans which games they'd like to see remade, resulting in significant community backlash.