Apple usually announces its new hardware in the fall, and this year is likely no different. The event is reported to be on September 9, and Apple is expected to release its iPhone 17 lineup, along with updates for the Apple Watch and AirPods. As always, there are many rumors circulating, including bigger screens and improved cameras for the iPhone …
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PlayStation Confirms ‘Move Away’ From Hardware, Gamers Losing Their Minds
Last night, Sony’s vice president confirmed something we’ve all kind of assumed for a while now: PlayStation is no longer interested in being a first-party publisher. Yesterday, Sony held their Q1 2026 earnings call, which sounds like something that should have been very dry and boring, but is actually something that ended up being extremely interesting (and somewhat divisive). During …
Read More »Sony Executive Confirms That PlayStation Is Moving Away from the Hardware Business Toward a Platform Business
Earlier today, Sony announced the quarterly financial results for Q1 2025, where we learned that the PlayStation 5 console had shipped 80.3 million units as of the end of June. The whole Game and Network Services (G&NS) segment registered an 8% year-on-year increase in sales of 936.5 billion yen ($6.35 billion), primarily due to the rise in third-party software sales, …
Read More »PlayStation Says It Is “Moving Away” from Hardware Centricity — Could More Xbox Ports Be On The Way?
The gaming industry is looking more and more alien as time goes by. Almost a couple of years ago now, Microsoft began porting Xbox exclusives to PlayStation, breaking decades of platform-exclusivity conventions. Many called it the end of Xbox, myself included, wondering just how long the Xbox hardware ecosystem would last without the promise of home-grown exclusive games. Fast forward …
Read More »Sonos to Raise Its Hardware Prices This Year Due to Tariffs – Bloomberg.com
Sonos to Raise Its Hardware Prices This Year Due to Tariffs Bloomberg.com Sonos confirms tariffs will increase its prices this year The Verge Sonos is raising prices this year to make up for tariff expenses Engadget If you’re thinking of buying a Sonos device, there’s now a very good reason not to wait What Hi-Fi? Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying …
Read More »Sony Senior Vice President says they are moving away from a hardware centric business model
It sounds like in the long term Sony is eventually moving away from a hardware centric business model according to the company’s senior vice president. We have already had LEGO Horizon Adventures grace the Nintendo Switch and by the sounds of it more games could eventually come to the Nintendo Switch 2 and future Nintendo platforms. Sony has been releasing …
Read More »Genshin Impact to end PS4 support, citing “limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size”
The team behind open-world adventure RPG Genshin Impact is ending support for those on PlayStation 4. Developer HoYoverse has said it made this decision because of “limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size”. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The PS4 version of Genshin Impact will be removed from the PlayStation Store later …
Read More »Koduri Unveils GPU Hardware IP and Software Startup – EE Times
Koduri Unveils GPU Hardware IP and Software Startup EE Times Oxmiq Labs Inc.™: Re-Architecting the GPU Stack: From Atoms to Agents™ Business Wire Legendary GPU architect Raja Koduri’s new startup leverages RISC-V and targets CUDA workloads — Oxmiq Labs supports running Python-based CUDA applications unmodified on non-Nvidia hardware Tom’s Hardware Ex-Intel Architect Bets Big On Custom AI Chips Finimize Oxmiq Labs Inc.™ repense l’architecture …
Read More »Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 is what happens when PC hardware wears its software like a glove
One of the biggest advantages Apple has in the laptop market is that it controls both its hardware and software. It could be one reason why its MacBooks ride so high as the best laptops for graphic design, and it’s not something that any other major player can claim apart from Microsoft. In the Surface Laptop 7, the benefits of …
Read More »A father buys a new gaming PC for his son for $1,200, not realizing that the hardware installed on it is over 10 years old.
To please his son and allow him to play the big games of the moment, a father thought he had made a good deal by buying a gamer PC for 1,200 euros. That’s a very reasonable price, which generally buys a robust configuration capable of running current and future games without difficulty. If that’s the price you can expect to …
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