A r/gamernews post is driving discussion around IGN's report, citing Nikkei, that Nintendo is preparing a Europe-first Switch 2 revision with a removable battery and updated Joy-Con 2 batteries to match EU repair rules.
Sony says PS5, PS5 Digital Edition, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal will get new recommended prices on 2026-04-02, citing continued pressure in the global economic landscape.
Nex said its family motion-gaming hardware will rise to $299 on 2026-04-01 while Play Pass pricing stays unchanged, citing higher DDR and eMMC costs tied to broader supply pressure.
After confusion over Switch 2 digital and physical pricing, Nintendo told IGN on 2026-03-25 that physical game prices are not being raised across the board; instead, new first-party digital MSRP in the U.S. will be lower than boxed versions starting with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.
In January 2026, OpenAI issued a U.S. hardware manufacturing RFP covering consumer devices, AI datacenters, and robotics. The document lays out a 10-year ambition to localize major parts of its physical supply chain inside the United States.
A March 21, 2026 Hacker News discussion sent tinygrad's tinybox page back up the front page and put a shipping local AI workstation in front of builders looking beyond rented GPU time. The product pitch is notable because it pairs concrete specs with pricing that targets labs and startups trying to run bigger models on premises.
Pearl Abyss says in its official FAQ that Crimson Desert currently does not support Intel Arc graphics cards. Players who bought the game expecting Arc support are told to check the refund policy of the platform they used.
CanIRun.ai runs entirely in the browser, detects GPU, CPU, and RAM through WebGL, WebGPU, and navigator APIs, and estimates which quantized models fit your machine. HN readers liked the idea but immediately pushed on missing hardware entries, calibration, and reverse-lookup features.
Valve used its March 6, 2026 Steam Year In Review 2025 post to reaffirm that Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and a redesigned Steam Controller are still planned for 2026. The company acknowledged memory and storage shortages, but said all three products will ship this year.
Apple launched new MacBook Pro models featuring the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, delivering up to 4x AI performance improvement over the previous generation. The M5 Max packs 614GB/s memory bandwidth and Neural Accelerators built into every GPU core.
Researchers reverse-engineered Apple's M4 Neural Engine, discovering it's a graph execution engine rather than a traditional processor, exposing hidden APIs that bypass CoreML, and revealing that Apple's '38 TOPS' spec is misleading.
AI data centers are hoarding global DRAM and HBM supplies, pushing smartphone average selling prices up 14% to a record $523 in 2026 and projecting the sharpest shipment decline on record.