On Thursday morning, Nintendo kicked off the post-hump day portion of the week with a juicy little Nintendo Direct livestream focused on Mario Kart World. It was nice to get some fun new details about the flagship launch title for Switch 2, but the Direct didn’t really answer the biggest question on many gamers’ minds: … Read more
Nvidia has announced that its 5060 line of GeForce RTX GPUs will be available for purchase beginning on April 16. The line includes two models: The RTX 5060 Ti, which comes in 8GB and 16GB VRAM variants, and the RTX 5060, which will only come in an 8GB VRAM option. The former GPU releases on … Read more
President Donald Trump’s tariff policies have only just gone into effect, and we’re already seeing price hikes across consumer tech. President Trump has imposed a huge tariff rate of 145 percent on China (where many tech products are manufactured), as well as smaller global tariffs on most other countries on the planet. That means importing … Read more
The tariff fees are typically paid on a product’s declared value rather than the retail cost. So a $170 price bump could be close to what the company’s US arm will pay to import the Watch 3 in the midst of a trade war. Many technology firms have attempted to stockpile products in the US … Read more
While Nintendo could theoretically avoid tariff impacts by moving Switch 2 production into the US, Wedbush’s Ives pointed out that the process would cost “tens of billions of dollars” and require “four to five years” to get a US factory of that scale up and running. Even then, the individual parts to make consoles like … Read more