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The history of video games goes as far back as the early 1950s, when academic computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations as part of their research. Video gaming did not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when video arcade games and gaming consoles using joysticks, buttons, and other controllers, along with graphics on computer screens and home computer games were introduced to the general public. Since the 1980s, video gaming has become a popular form of entertainment and a part of modern popular culture in most parts of the world.

PC gaming has been holding a large market share for decades and continues to grow due to digital distribution.

This group is dedicated to share video game history and discuss the biggest and best games ever made.

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Valve updates hardware launch timing due to component pricing

5 February - DanishScorpio | 1 Comments

Firm is working to finalise pricing and launch dates while being "mindful" of ongoing memory and storage shortages

Last November, Valve announced three new Steam hardware devices: the next-gen Steam Machine, Steam Frame VR headset, and a new Steam controller.

The platform holder had yet to finalise specific pricing and launch dates, but shared its goal of shipping in "early 2026."

"Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed," it said. "But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then.

"The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame)."

"There's been a surge of demand for memory chips, driven above all by the high-end High Bandwidth Memory that AI requires," said historian and author Chris Miller. "This has led to higher prices across different types of memory chips."

"With both demand clarity and supply constraints converging, suppliers have steadily pushed prices upwards, in some cases aggressively."

While Valve revisits its pricing for its upcoming Steam hardware, the firm previously said the cost of the Steam Machine in particular will be "pretty competitive."

"I think that if you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that's the general price window that we aim at," said Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais.

"Ideally, we'd be pretty competitive with that and have a pretty good deal, but we're working on refining that as we speak, and right now is just a hard time to have a really good idea of what the price is going to be because there's a lot of different things that are fluctuating."

Nintendo net sales up 99.3% as Switch 2 shifts 17.37m units

3 February - DanishScorpio | 0 Comments

The hardware sold 7 million copies in the three months ending December 31, 2025

The company reported that its net sales were up 99.3% year-on-year, hitting ¥1.9 trillion ($12.3 billion) for the first nine months of its 2025/26 financial year.

Meanwhile, operating profit rose 21.3% to hit ¥300.4 billion ($1.9 billion), while the company's ordinary profit came in at ¥445.8 billion ($2.9 billion), representing a 39.4% increase year-on-year.

Nintendo also reported a 51.3% increase in its net profit, which tallied to ¥358.8 billion ($2.3 billion).

To date, the Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 17.37 million units, 7.01 million of which were in the three months ending December 31, 2025. It's the most impressive sales quarter that the console has had so far, beating the 5.82 million units that the hardware shifted when it was released in Q1.

Nintendo Switch 2 is also outstripping its predecessor's performance; in the first nine months of the company's 2018 financial year, the original Nintendo Switch had sold 14.86 million units following its March 2017 release. Nintendo Switch 2 launched later in the year – in June – and has sold more consoles in the same timeframe.

The Nintendo Switch did sell 3.25 million consoles for the nine months ending December 31, 2025, a 66% drop year-on-year. To date, the hardware has sold a total of 155.37 million copies and was played by 129 million people between January and December 2025. That's a very slight decrease on 2024's 130 million.

Nintendo Switch 2 software came in at 37.93 million sales, outperformed by Nintendo Switch's 108.93 million, though that itself was a 12.1 % decrease year-on-year. For the three months ending December 31, 2025, Nintendo Switch 2 sold 17.31 million games. In total, 58.7% of all Nintendo games sold during Q3 were physical.

The platform holder has also updated some sales figures for Nintendo Switch 2 titles; Mario Kart World has sold 14 million copies – and is by far the console's biggest seller to date – while Donkey Kong Bananza has shifted 4.25 million units. The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Pokémon Legends Z-A has sold 3.89 million, coming in ahead of Kirby Air Riders, which has shifted 1.76 million units.

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Yonaga, who has been manipulating Steam for years, went one step further and added me as a friend with a sub-account and tried to hack me by sending me links. Of course, I understood the situation and deleted him immediately, but everyone needs to see Yonaga's true face now. He also hacked a person named Senza along with Commander Steffa.

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