As always, really enjoyed the conversation with Mr. Dring talking everything market and what we're looking at for the coming year.

"As for securing a supply of memory, we are already in a position to secure the minimum quantity necessary to manage the year-end selling season of next fiscal year." Great for PlayStation hardware in the short term. But start the clock. finance.yahoo.com/quote/SNEJF/...

Yep, pretty good.

Oh man The Muppet Show was great. I remember crying as a little kid when it was just gone one week after being canceled in like 1981. Seeing the new one 45 (!!!) years later was real weird! So fun. Hope we get more.

Just look at the curve. Just look at it. Significant early life sales advantage for Switch 2 driven by higher supply pulling demand forward, while Switch 1 was more seasonally driven. The idea that this curve has some talking about 'losing momentum' or as 'disappointing' is absolutely baffling.

'This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale.'

The Steam Machine has been delayed (from Q1 to H1, so maybe only a month or three) and Valve is going to have to reset pricing expectations entirely. Dang. www.theverge.com/games/874196...

"The top reason cited by consumers for not wanting AI in their devices is that they simply do not need AI capabilities. Nearly two-thirds of opposed consumers indicated that their devices already perform the tasks they need. Another 59% of AI detractors cited privacy concerns..."

Someone ask AMD when Half-Life 3 is coming out

I also hope that this problem will somehow just eventually disappear, as if by magic.

From Circana's Retail Tracking Service ICYMI - the top 10 best-selling games of 2025 in the US (full game dollar sales, excluding digital add-on content) by ecosystem. Physical & Digital for participating publishers and platforms (see my pinned post).

jeffrey epstein's apparent association with the likes of bobby kotick, steve bannon, and peter thiel – and his fascination with game design as a means of controlling others – paint an unsettling picture

If only all console manufacturers could be this Doomed or have 'lost momentum' like this. Over 17 million in just the first calendar year is an unreal total.

Are the cats fighting? Me-wow

UBS: The Adobe Digital Price Index, which covers prices of items sold online, rose in January by the most in its 12-year history. (via @nicktimiraos.bsky.social)

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - US Top 10 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Jan 24, 2026 - No Rest for the Wicked jumped from 322nd on Steam a week ago to 11th - 2XKO debuted 17th on PS and 27th on XBX - Death Stranding XBX ranked 16th (up from 501st) with Game Pass add

Well, Sal. I'm going for the platinum here and, well, I got some bad news.

every time i see some new attempt to Streamline and Optimize our Lives i think about this kurt vonnegut quote that does rounds. we're dancing animals! not everything needs to be optimized! sometimes a tedious task creates an unlikely opportunity to learn something about yourself! or for joy!!

Oh. "Nvidia’s plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI... has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal"

The kids are no longer doing 6-7 when put on the stadium big screen fyi.

Padres Fan Fest with 15 minutes to go before gates open. Sheesh Padre peeps ready to fest today.

People who make games and the people who really love them want to take care of each other. And that extends to our neighbors in Minnesota. So proud of everyone. Thank you for helping us raise $263,660.

Our team was thorough, I’ll give them that.

Friendship ended with Fozzie the Bear. Now Sal the Bloodfang Sabretooth Tiger is my best friend. (Oh, who am I kidding I still love Fozzie)

Today we're asking you for your help in raising money for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Donate to have your message read on our shows. Let's protect our neighbors and communities from ICE. kindafunny.com/donate

Baseball related timeline cleanse

Impacting video games as well... "Households with incomes under $75,000 are allocating less on discretionary categories like travel and experiences than in 2019, while those above $150,000 are allotting more, according to a Bank of America report released last month."

I made a bear friend. His name is Fozzie. He's a very good bear and we go on adventures and he eats dudes and whatever. This game is alright.

Seems bad!

Here's a wild (but not surprising?) stat - 53% of US video game hardware buyers in Q4 '25 had a household income of $100k+ - a record high - and up from 40% in Q1 '22. The average price of video game hardware in the US was $373 in Q1 2022, jumping to $446 by Q4 2025. Source: Circana Checkout

$83,600,000,000 is what $83.6 billion looks like.

Folks, I don't know how to tell you this. But you don't HAVE to be weird about video games. You can just be a normal human about them. I swear. You can do it. I believe in you. Yes, even YOU.

Try a couple decades of shitty emails ranging from simple insults all the way up to death threats from idiot fanboys who can't handle you giving a game "only" 8/10 and see which one puts more calluses on your soul, dummy. You'd fold in six months or less.

Idk if I was in leadeeship at a studio that released a wildly successful and critically acclaimed RPG that made me insanely rich the last thing I'd do is whine or post on social media ever again but maybe I'm just built different.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

Alright, time to get the ol' Steam Deck charged up.

I fixed the MLB The Show 26 cover

Remember when Ubisoft made an open world map game set in the stone age where you ran around with speers hunting sabretooth tigers and mammoths while your witch doctor dude had you drink eyeballs and the woman in your camp made a necklace of ears? That was weird. Anyways I'm playing Far Cry Primal.

Here's a fun fact, courtesy of Circana's Retail Tracking Service. Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the #1 selling physical video game for the week ending Jan 17th in both units and dollars in the US. The 3.0 content update released during the week. That's up from #27 in dollars the prior week.

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - US Top 10 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Jan 17, 2026 - The Marvel Rivals Season 6: Night at the Museum content drop on Jan 16th helped lift the title to 6th in US weekly active users on PlayStation and to 8th on Xbox.

I would say that the big game missing physical at launch would be an even bigger fart on the wind sales-wise than game key cards are now. But it really wouldn't be worth it. So, I won't say that

And imo it would have no impact at all on launch sales.

Yep, video games should be fun. Even when talking sales data. If this stuff isn't fun, why do it or care. It's video games. Thank you Jay!

Fascinating insights into the UK games industry. (Proud to see Wales supporting game development!💪)

Ya know, idk about you but I have not once ever thought this.

Huge love to all the Minnesota peeps from SD.

Video games do not cause violence. But we as an industry are clearly not ready to have a conversation about how we've normalized a military fantasy

Saying goodbye to the Junk Man Randy Jones at Petco. Padre Legend. Take it slow, Randy.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

Shoutout to the Landfall social team that constantly has to tell a bunch of 14yr olds on TikTok that grew up on Roblox that some games are actually finished and don't get free updates for the rest of eternity