AMD has announced recently that it will be introducing a plethora of new driver features come December, as part of the company's annual major driver release for the holidays. This, combined with some very interesting chatter in the techsphere by industry insiders has sparked rumors that AMD is in fact finally bringing DirectX Ray Tracing …
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software data for Japan for week of June 2, 2025 to June 8, 2025.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch 2 – 947,931 (New)
PlayStation 5 – 14,535 (5,690,661)
Switch OLED Model – 8,040 (9,060,680)
Switch Lite – 6,089 (6,581,795)
PlayStation 5 Pro – 4,230 (218,056)
Switch – 2,482 (20,109,545)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,017 (974,094)
Xbox Series S – 163 (337,686)
Xbox Series X – 113 (320,660)
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 57 (20,820)
PlayStation 4 – 24 (7,929,628)
So its official. Switch 2 dethroned PS2 in Japan for the biggest hardware launch ever.
Tripled the switch launch numbers, yeah Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market is going smooth
And take note. This is just for retail sales only; sales from the Nintendo Japanese website are not yet included.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer explains that the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X is Microsoft's best collaboration between gaming and Windows teams.
Next Level Racing just revealed an officially licensed flight simulation cockpit for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
Tempting... but I have to say I am more of an arcade deluxe cab fan. I loved the ones for Galaxy Force, Thunder Blade and After Burner.
Being that this is the case, perhaps the PS5 and Scarlett will be using a variant of the RX 5700 XT, since they surely must have their cpu/gpu figured out by now, and Phil spencer did say that the next Xbox will have ray tracing. It will be interesting to see the final specs of the new consoles.
It seems like a bad idea for slow card like these to try to implement what is known as a very power hungry resource in RTX.
interesting....maybe a beefier GPU later in the year?
Oh boy this will be interesting