The Swap is formally Nintendo’s hottest console ever

With over 155 million bought, Nintendo’s Swap is formally the corporate’s greatest console hit ever. It’s been an extended highway to surpassing the DS, which reached 154 million consoles over its seven-year lifespan. The Swap, in the meantime, is a yr shy of its 10-year anniversary.

We’ve seen the unique console, the non-hybrid Lite and the OLED variations of the Swap over the last decade, however regardless of being changed by Swap 2, the unique continues to be promoting at a powerful tempo: 1.36 million models in Q3. Simply assume what number of Pleasure-Cons it bought/replaced?

Subsequent objective: attempt to be the best-selling console of all time. At the moment, that’s the PlayStation 2.

Nintendo is simply shy of 5 million models to go.

— Mat Smith

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Moltbook is a “digital petri dish,” a Reddit-style discussion board populated fully by AI brokers that submit, observe and even gossip about their house owners in devoted submolts. Constructed utilizing vibe coding, it’s a surreal experiment in autonomous socialization — although there’s no scarcity of user-data safety flaws. Is Moltbook a profound take a look at the lifeless web idea or only a very loud AI echo chamber? Or one thing within the center? Karissa explains all of it. (Sorry, Karissa.)

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Lean in.

Nintendo’s worst-selling console was most likely the Digital Boy. It bought lower than 800,000 models, with solely 22 video games in Japan and 14 in North America. And it didn’t even have the center to launch in Europe or Australia.

However Nintendo doesn’t care. It’s introduced the Digital Boy again, child, as an add-on for the Swap 2, in all its crimson monochrome ’90s-tech glory. And we lastly obtained to check it.

It even contains the unique bipod, which you utilize to prop it up and lean into it. Sure, you continue to can’t simply put on the factor like fashionable VR headsets. The Swap 2 console, sans Pleasure-Cons, then slides in, performing as show, battery and processor.

It appears extra of a historic nod than the rest. That is just about 30-year-old VR tech, as-is. However… I nonetheless need one as a gaming objet d’artwork. 100 bucks is a good chunk of change for that, although. Learn on for our full impressions.

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Pre-orders open later this month.

Google posted a teaser video revealing its new entry-level smartphone, the Pixel 10a, in a pretty lilac colorway. We don’t know far more, nevertheless. You may see it’s one other dual-camera Pixel, with that very same flush physique — which I like. (How does that already appear retro?)

Leaks recommend a 6.3-inch show and a big 5,100 mAh battery. It in any other case appears to be like and looks as if the Pixel 9a, though Google guarantees that there’s “extra in retailer.” Final yr’s A-series launched at $500 — will this land at an analogous worth? You may pre-order the Pixel 10a on February 18.

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Shouldn’t Microsoft be saying this?

AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed on the corporate’s newest earnings name that Microsoft’s growth of an Xbox with a semi-custom SOC from AMD is “progressing nicely to help a launch in 2027.” Perhaps Microsoft can chase that best-selling console crown too?

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