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With over 155 million sold, Nintendo’s Switch is officially the company’s biggest console hit ever. It’s a long way to go more than DSwhich reached 154 million consoles in its seven-year life. The Switch, on the other hand, is a year shy of its 10-year anniversary.
We saw the original console, the non-hybrid Lite and the OLED versions of the Switch in the decade, but despite being replaced by the Switch 2, the original is still sold at a high speed: 1.36 million units in Q3. Just imagine how many Joy-Cons it sold/replaced?
Next goal: try to become the best-selling console in the all the time. Currently, that’s the PlayStation 2.
Nintendo is just shy of five million units to go.
— Matt Smith
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Nintendo’s worst selling console is probably the Virtual Boy. It sold less than 800,000 units, with 22 games in Japan and 14 in North America. And it doesn’t even have the guts to launch in Europe or Australia.
But Nintendo doesn’t care. It brings the Virtual Boy back, baby, as an add-on for the Switch 2, in all its red monochrome ’90s-tech glory. And finally we got to try it.
It even includes the original bipod, which you use to prop it up and prop it up. Yes, you still can’t Clothe the thing is like a modern VR headset. The Switch 2 console, sans The Joy-Cons, then slide out, serve as the display, battery and processor.
It seems more of a historical nod than anything else. This is almost 30-year-old VR tech, as-is. But… I still want one as a toy art object. A hundred bucks is a fair chunk of change for that, though. Read on for our full impressions.
Pre-orders open later this month.
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Google posted a teaser video revealing its new entry-level smartphone, the Pixel 10a, in a It lilac color. We don’t know anything yet, though. You can see that this is another dual-camera Pixel, with the same flush body – which I like. (How does this sound retro?)
The leaks suggest a 6.3-inch display and a large 5,100 mAh battery. Otherwise it doesn’t look like the Pixel 9a, although Google promises that there’s “more in store.” Last year’s A-series launched for $500 — will it reach the same price? You can pre-order the Pixel 10a on February 18.
Shouldn’t Microsoft say this?
AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed in the company’s most recent earnings call that Microsoft’s development of an Xbox with a semi-custom SOC from AMD “is progressing well to support a 2027 launch.” Maybe Microsoft can also chase the best-selling console crown?
