Gaming Hardware

Nintendo will roll out revised hardware with swappable batteries in Europe and stop selling the original Switch family from mid-February 2027.

MSI's new Intel Arc G3 Extreme handheld shipped June 23 at $1,699 to $1,799, nearly double a Steam Deck OLED, as surging LPDDR5X memory costs push portable-PC prices to new highs.

Valve added Initial Support for Steam Frame to SteamOS Manager and shipped a Proton 11 ARM64 beta targeting the headset, the clearest software signals yet that the VR headset is approaching release.

Sony's second PlayStation 5 price increase in under a year took effect on April 2, pushing the PS5 Pro to $900 and the standard console to $650 as AI-driven memory demand and trade tariffs compress margins across the gaming hardware industry.

Both GPU makers are shifting mainstream production to 8 GB models as DRAM prices surge 180 percent, MSI calls 2026 its hardest year since founding, and IDC warns the sub-$500 PC market may vanish by 2028.

AMD's first RDNA 4 graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, launched on March 6 at $549 and $599 with competitive rasterization performance, a machine-learning-powered FSR 4 upscaler, and 16 GB of VRAM — but sold out within hours as AMD described demand as 'unprecedented'.