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Daily Authority: š Switch up, Meta down
So here's the tech news from A to Z: Nintendo Switch up, Facebook down, and more news you need to know today!
ā Good morning!
Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii
The Nintendo Switch has become Nintendoās best-selling home console ever.
- Nintendo added 10.67 million Switch sales in its most recent quarter, from October to December.
- That chalks up total lifetime Switch sales to 103.5 million, beating out the Wiiās 101.6 million.
- Now, that includes the new $350 OLED Switch, which sold 4 million units, and Nintendo said it āgot off to a good start.ā
- Remember that, comparatively, Sony sold 3.9 million PlayStation 5 consoles in the same timeframe.
- As for forecasts, Nintendo projected fewer sales again, and said āchallenges around semiconductors and shipping may persist,ā which is putting it lightly.
- As for games, Nintendo said that its PokƩmon remasters of Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were the leaders, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Party Superstars, and good old Animal Crossing still selling well, too, with a bunch of numbers supporting that.
- Otherwise, the new PokĆ©mon Legends: Arceus should sell well, and upcoming games The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 and Splatoon 3 should be bright spots sometime this yearā¦
Anyway:
- It all confirms that the Switch remains a wildly successful little console, which is no great surprise.
- The OLED version has given things a little kick-along too, but the lack of additional processing power given to the console with the new version seemed a little short-sighted.
- Iām still interested to know when Nintendo might put out a Switch 2 or a Switch OLED Pro with a lot more under the hood, so that games like Breath of The Wild are much more visually complex.
Roundup
- š Google actually tried with the Pixel series and itās working (Android Authority).
- š Leak: These might be your official Samsung Galaxy S22 case options, with 20 or so options (Android Authority).
- š History made: Facebook daily use declined for first time ever last quarter, with fewer daily users on the platform (Android Authority). Metaās business is up 20% YoY, but TikTok is eating Instagram even as Reels grows, Appleās ad privacy moves will cost it $10B in revenue in 20222, and Metaās Reality Labs division, which is the metaverse part, saw $10.2 billion spent on it across the year, up from $6.6b in 2020. Anyway, with growth faltering, the stock tanked an enormous 20% overnight, which changed Zuckās paper wealth by $24 billion. But the actual market opening later today will be interestingā¦
- š More on Appleās privacy measures thatāll cost Facebook $10B in 2022 (MacRumors).
- š„½ Microsoft has reportedly killed off its plans for the HoloLens 3 (Engadget).
- šļø Gran Turismo 7 preview: A return to expansive, grindy, car-collecting roots (Ars Technica).
- ā Google Maps explains how it tackles review bombing (Engadget).
- š» DeepMind says its new AI coding engine called AlphaCode is āas good as an average human programmer,ā though in a limited way. Still, it opens the door to making programming easier for non-programmers. Google owns DeepMind, in case you forgot (The Verge).
- š„ Welcome to the Burner Phone Olympics(Wired).
- šø The worldās best Guitar Hero player was a cheat (though heās still really, really, really goodā¦) (Kotaku).
- āļø Mars meteorite āBlack Beautyā hints at red planetās past habitability (CNET).
- š¤ āELI5: How do modern dishwashers take way longer to run and clean better yet use less energy and water?ā (r/explainlikeimfive).
Throwback Thursday
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Tomorrow marks 22 years of The Sims! First released back on February 4, 2000, The Sims through all of its generations and DLC and fan-made content and everything, fully captured the minds and hearts of plenty of adults and kids.
- I remember my sister, as a kid, being completely terrified of the thief that would come and steal your stuff in the night.
- Then there was the problem when your Sim set the kitchen or house on fire with bad cooking skills.
- But a lot of problems canāt be blamed on your Sims: people invariably experimented with their Sims by taking away the ladder in the poolā¦
- Anyway, itās still wildly popular, The Sims 4 continues to get new content, and EA officially confirmed The Sims 5 will emerge at some point, with multiplayer, though remaining āa safe spaceā that āenables people to freely create their own worldā.
Cheers,
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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