Switch 2 Prices Rise, Forecast Drops - DTNS 5265

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2:04This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, May 8th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you all the important context and help each other understand. Today, Sony and Nintendo share what's up with their consoles in the shadow of the Memory Crunch. Memory crunch kind of sounds like a cereal. It does. Memory crunch. Mmm, yummy. Filled with chips. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Ted Howell. Let's start with what you need to know with a big heaping bowl of big story.

2:37And whether you pour regular milk on top of it or almond milk, that's your choice. Whatever you prefer. Nintendo raising Switch 2's price in only its second year. The console is not that old at this point. While warning during its earnings call that its hardware sales and profits are set to fall because of the impact of rising memory costs, Nintendo plans to raise the Switch 2's US price by$50. So it's not major, but notable. So that's going to cost$500 starting September 1st. So you have time. If you're in Japan, you don't have a whole lot of time. They're getting a 10 ,000 yen hike going into effect on May 25th.

3:25So, you know, 20 days, 19 days from now. Similar price hikes coming to Europe and Canada. No timeline or details available for those price hikes quite yet, but I'm sure we'll find out soon. Nintendo is forecasting lower console unit sales and profit far below analyst expectations. As a result, Switch 2 sales are actually tracking ahead of the original Switch, but still Nintendo expects net profit to drop about 27 % on an 11 % revenue decline. And yeah, Switch 2, I mean, it was good out of the gate. I think that's what's interesting about this is that, you know, it's a new console, has a lot of momentum, has some energy right out of the gate.

4:09We are now in the second year. price hike goes in the opposite direction of what we're used to seeing with consoles usually the longer a console's out that price drops but this is just a i as as the term i've heard repeatedly over the last i don't know how many years unprecedented times it really is um yeah i i suppose that there's always going to be a little skepticism i think with run consoles just because it's always like a dicey thing right uh especially like these days it feels like um especially as so as much as we talk about things like cloud gaming and how much of an, I feel like there is a big appetite for things like cloud gaming and, you know, I guess like to mention poor stadia and things like that.

4:48It just felt like it hasn't, it has poor stadia and solutions like that. Haven't really taken off, but I really wonder what this does mean for the future. Are you pulling out from your bag of tricks to stadia? I mean, you said the word stadia. So, and I know that I've got it like within reach. It's just over there on a shelf. You know, We got to remember poor cloud-based Stadia. It's so funny because I feel like maybe Stadia was just, as many things are, too early for its time. And this is unprecedented. I will say what's interesting, and this is not like a bombshell or anything, but it's fascinating because generally Nintendo has lower prices in Japan.

5:28And if you do the math, and it's really hard because the yen is just, if you're all familiar, the yen is just having a bad time. um but even if you uh if you convert for today what 10 000 yen is that 63 so technically it's like a little bit more than the increase in the u.s but it's it's fascinating because usually uh nintendo's in japan at least console wise are much cheaper uh which is what a lot of people like to go over so it does seem to be signaling um you know not great uh that the situation's not great And gosh, this whole like economic net and tech net of like, well, because of AI, you know, data center implosion and of different manufacturers either reacting to it or kind of shifting, like pivoting in their businesses to take advantage of it or otherwise or pivoting or increasing prices because they're affected negatively by it.

6:17It's kind of, I just really wonder whether the weather could come back to Stadia since you brought it out. How this will affect like, you know, future approaches. Like obviously, like we talked about Xbox and kind of, and obviously the Xbox is a much more complicated, much more, there's a lot more like different nuances there. But I don't know, maybe we're getting to a point where consoles, hardware is just reaching that tipping point. and that not necessarily because we don't like consoles or that people don't enjoy buying hardware, but that just between everything that we have going on, maybe it's that tipping point.

6:55Poor Stadia. Maybe Stadia was just, what, five, four? How long was it ago? Whatever it was ago. Maybe it was just too early. I don't know. If I had to guess off the top of my head, it was probably like five years ago. But yeah. I'm just curious. I mean, I think maybe somewhat to your point, you know, is this the new normal, at least for this year, this seems to be the new normal. And I think, you know, continually, at least every week, you know, one of the times that I'm on, there's some sort of story that ties into this whole memory shortage. How is it impacting product cost and everything? So from that perspective, you know, it becomes like, is the story here that the Switch 2, let's say, is in trouble or not doing as well as, you know the switch one at that same time actually the switch to its first year um outpaced the original switch so it did pretty darn good but any of these like these moments where the price is increasing it's going to impact you know demand and sales and all this kind of stuff is this just a symbol of the time that we're in and the related cause of that being this chip shortage or does it signal kind of like some sort of potential long-term change to how these companies, you know, are, are used to selling their, their hardware?

8:16Like, does it make some sort of longer term impact? And obviously that remains to be seen, but, but one thing is clear, it definitely impacts momentum, right? Yeah. A hundred percent. Switch, switch to had some solid momentum that first year. Now this is going to shift that momentum. Is that recoverable? Is Is that something, you know, like it's still too early to say. Nintendo, not the only one, you know, facing this as well. Right. Also in the news, Sony announced its earnings, revealing during the earnings call that PlayStation five sales fail roughly 46 percent year over year. Of course, this is kind of a different story because the PlayStation five has been out for a while.

8:58Certainly past its peak at this point. uh ceo hiroki totoki uh revealed that the company is keeping playstation 6 plans flexible so that means no set launch window no pricing or anything like that that they're revealing right now uh and they're citing the the volatile kind of state of memory costs as the reason why sony is expecting memory prices to stay elevated into its 2027 fiscal year totoki also shared that engagement on the PS5 is still very strong. And so that essentially means that Sony has the time in its estimation to kind of hold off on the release of news or information or a next-gen console, the PS6, for a time when memory prices potentially improve somewhere down the line.

9:49Perhaps that gives Sony an opportunity to, instead of focusing on this new console, develop out other related hardware like a refreshed ps5 model which they often do right uh later in the in the cycle or accessories that sort of stuff this is definitely a bit of a different one and i kind of wonder and i i think i mentioned this on an i think i asked this on android faithful whether you guys thought that um smartphones were solved in a sense because we've been in like kind of like a state where everything seems the same more or less um and and not to say the same thing is true of consoles but i really wonder because the ps5 i didn't like yeah it's been around for a while um and and i feel like there's there's been continuing lots of i feel like for for me and again i'm not like as serious a gamer and i'm certainly not as as well tapped into the entire like you know gaming journalism market and all like kind of like the the hyper enthusiasts and all like the different trends there um but it really feels like there's a lot more focus on games uh as far as i can consider like it feels like i mean i mean that's like gaming too right really the console is a vehicle the main the main kind of driver is games um and yeah and i just wonder especially again like kind of citing like xbox and things like that too it's just been so interesting to kind of feel that the ps5 is still doing amazing i feel like a lot of times with consoles you start to feel its age at some point right like it starts to be like okay um and that the next generation feels like this evolutionary leap where we go from like you know like blocky polygons and like you know donkey kong 64 to oh my god ray tracing and everything has got you know like like like real like like real physics simulation based um based graphics i i honestly wonder also whether there might be some like what the longer term trends would be for that as well since i don't know like i only have so many rods and cones in my eyeballs i don't know how like you know and and obviously gaming is is really beautiful now i just kind of i'm curious whether and this might be like who knows 10 20 years in the future if if we have enough memory to enough RAM to make it there.

11:47I'm really curious whether we will continue to see longer and longer or, if anything, a console like the PS5 just having a much longer shelf. I mean, between the Switch and Switch 2 was a huge amount of time, right? Especially given the kind of games and the kind of gaming you do. I almost wonder whether, especially given everything, where we'll just see these more expanded and expanded amounts of time between consoles just because there's a limit to like, you know, like how much you can actually improve. Yeah. Just like, who needs eight? Yeah. Yeah. No, that's an, that's an interesting idea. Yeah.

12:22Um, I suppose we'll see, uh, you know, uh, but it is, it is an interesting time. It's an interesting moment, uh, what the, with the impacts of, of the memory costs right now and how it's kind of having a direct impact on kind of future plans for how these things get developed and released and announced. Well, whatever is coming in the future, you can be assured that we will be with you. And thank you guys for making that possible because DTNS is made possible by you, the listener. So let's take time to thank Jim Hart, Mike Akins, Norm Fazekas, and Pete Patron. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Thank you.

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16:13There's plenty more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. All right. Well, thanks again to Motang for bringing this to our attention in the subreddit and letting us know that Instructure, and that's the company behind the Canvas learning system that many schools and universities use to run their classes online, has unfortunately confirmed a major data breach along with an extortion attack that has been tied to the Shiny Hunters ransomware group. It claims to have stolen data on around 275 million users across roughly 9 ,000 schools worldwide, including 3.65 terabytes worth of data. This includes names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and private messages.

16:56Instructor says there is no evidence of access to passwords, states of birth, government identifiers, or financial data in the breach. Canvas users were presented with a defaced login, with defaced login pages that showed a ransom note that threatened to leak the stolen data unless instructor or institutions paid by mid-May. That led to instructor pulling Canvas offline at a time when many schools and classes are preparing for finals ahead of the end of school year. Kind of a crazy moment for all of this to happen, right? If you're a student and you're relying on these online classes or you're doing a hybrid thing, this puts students and schools into a pretty uncomfortable position where they have to kind of think on their toes and figure out how else you approach this while this is shut down.

17:44Hopefully it gets resolved soon, but I think there's probably a lot of scrambling happening behind the scenes and trying to figure out how do you do what you do when you rely on a platform like this. Yeah. You know what? Like seeing stories like this and, you know, I guess security stories and issues happen to everyone. But looking at this, you know, impacting students right now, I realize a consistent thing that I keep returning to is how difficult it's got to be to be a student of that age right now. They are facing so much between things like this, between whether founded or not, put in air quotes, the threat of AI, taking your jobs.

18:29Like, is my time in university even worth doing if this AI is just going to – like, what an uncertain and weird time to be a student of that age right now. I feel for them. Yeah, they've definitely taken a lot of hits between the pandemic and everything now. That too. That's a good point. These are probably the same students that just a few years ago were in high school during the pandemic and everything shut down. What does this lead to 10, 15, 20 years down the line in their own ethic, their own skills and everything that they bring? It probably makes them really resilient in a lot of ways. If anything, I guess, sorry, you guys.

19:08I'm sorry for all the myriad things that maybe the rest of us could have done to alleviate you on this. And we're so sorry that people are now taking advantage. Yeah, this is like, I mean, it's pretty dang sneaky to do this during such a high pressure time. Because, yeah, obviously. Anyway, I raised my fist and angrily for you guys. I'm so sorry. It's a good point, though. Yarg. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is reporting. This is kind of rumor land, but I thought it was interesting that Apple is already testing its next gen AirPods Pro with stem mounted cameras that can act as eyes for the upcoming revamped Siri.

19:51The cameras are meant to feed into Siri's visual intelligence use cases, so identifying what you're looking at, offering context-aware reminders, referencing landmarks when you're in navigation mode, that sort of stuff. Just a few ideas. German says Apple employees are already trialing prototypes, but the launch timing is, of course, tied to the next release of iOS and iPadOS and macOS. That would be release number 27, which is expected in September. German also warns that the product could still be delayed, of course, if Apple isn't satisfied with the quality of the visual AI features. German shared that there are no Vision Pro style gesture controls planned at this time, though you can imagine like if there's a camera in the earbuds, maybe it opens up the door for something like that.

20:43He's saying that's not on the horizon right now. I'm very interested in this, especially because we talk a lot about smart glasses. And it really got me thinking, like, which are people more likely to use for this sort of like AI hardware tool thing? Are they more likely to put on a pair of glasses? Are they more likely to just use the camera that's embedded in their AirPods? I kind of think like, I don't know. I watch my daughters. Both of them have AirPods. They wear them all the time. Yeah. I could see it. I could totally see it. No, I think this is actually kind of all of the social like impacts.

21:19I think it's kind of brilliant. I feel like I. So two things. First, when you said stem mounted, I know you mean the stems on the AirPods, but I was almost picturing like little antenna sticking up and having little eyeballs here a little periscope little above your forehead reaching out from your ear yes wouldn't that be amazing but i i do understand it's i and this is so funny because i feel like it's almost like you took a picture of a human face and you like you know like this is like ridiculous how people there's like this thing on on some like kids shows where they would draw a face on your chin and then rotate it and then you look at a face upside down it almost feels like i'm looking at um smart glasses like that And I honestly think it's brilliant.

21:56I, you know, I like this idea so much that we kind of inversed, we inversed what happened, whereas we took glasses and we would stick like, you know, bone conduction or whatever on them so that they had the audio component. I kind of think this idea is brilliant. And because you're right, we are so used to seeing people with AirPods. I've been watching a lot of Orphan Black, so everyone's wearing the Bluetooth headsets from like 10 years, you know, 10, 15 years ago. we are so used to that and it doesn't have the same like let's just like if it might use a dramatic word stigma or maybe like the problematic kind of nature that we have cameras i think like just strictly from a feasibility perspective i think this is brilliant i don't know if someone like for me like with long hair or something might have an issue but i do think this is a really if this is true i do think it's a really brilliant approach and something worth trying it may not work out at all.

22:47But I, I think that's, I, I love the, I love how my brain does it a backflip when you describe that? I, I, I think it's interesting. Well, and I think what you point out also is, or what, what you said kind of led me to this idea that like the stigma around smart glasses is something that we've been dealing with for the last 10 years is Google glass and, you know, the camera kerfuffle, if you want, if it qualifies to be a kerfuffle word, I just loved when I had the opportunity to say it. But that's still around. I'm definitely seeing articles from people now that are like, we've got smart glasses, they do better things, but there's still a stigma around having a pair of a camera embedded into the glasses that you're wearing.

23:31When you meet people who aren't super friendly with that, that can be really uncomfortable. I wonder if a similar stigma will attach itself to AirPods having a camera in it? Or is that camera so small that it becomes less of an obvious thing because it's not on our face where we're looking, it's in the ears. You know what I mean? Like maybe that subtle shift changes or maybe Apple faces similar backlash. I don't know. That's going to be interesting if we actually see this product come to market. Yeah, 100%. There is something about the fact that glass, like almost literally because glasses frame your eyes that I feel like there's some psychology there that.

24:08So we're looking at it. Yeah. No matter what. Yeah. We're feeling it. Yeah. All right. Well, ebook company Books launched a new product called Tappy, a wireless page turning remote that connects to its e-ink tablets and other Bluetooth devices for hands-free reading and control. The remote consists of two thumb-sized buttons with different functions depending on the mode that it's set to. Reading mode for page turns, browsing mode for vertical scrolling, scrolling rather, not scrolling, scrolling, and listening mode for audio and music track navigation. It has a 95 milliamp rechargeable battery that lasts weeks and comes in green or orange with two space key caps with pixelated icons like heart, coffee cup, X and O.

24:48The remote works with more than just books products and runs$25.99 on the book site and Amazon. Yeah, this is one of those hardware things that when I saw it, I was like, okay, I guess I could see it. Like, apparently there's a market for this. Kobo has a similar remote. And the idea here is that sometimes when you're reading an e-book or something like that, you aren't always holding the device. A lot of people mount it on the table in front of them. And then every time you need to turn the page, you got to gorilla arm yourself out there to touch either the button or swipe on the screen or whatever.

25:24And the remote's just meant to make you give you more convenience or more lazy however you want to look at it but i don't know i think it's funny okay when i first saw this my first reaction my unkind reaction was like well this dumb although i actually might buy one and the more i thought about it um and this is one of those things where i i think like um it kind of like it it dawned on me actually how brilliant this is uh number one maybe i'm getting a little sappy but my husband and i like to read in bed at night i like to i i have like my devices uh you know we like to cuddle it is hard to cuddle someone and sometimes turn pages or swipe pages um yeah and you got to do that and um i think we're i think just because of my handedness i often will have to like switch it it's it's odd i know this is like this is even beyond first world problems y 'all this is some sappy stuff but um but yes i was like that's kind of brilliant also my sister's still breastfeeding my nephew like there's tons of ways for us to not be able to hold a thing yeah hold a device and so for her i bet that she would love to have like just a little remote so that she could read keep her like you know her um ebook on her lap and still you know do what she needs to do with a baby like yeah kind of brilliant um and i think that's actually to bring it back around to something more serious um that these kind of things are about accessibility and for most of us who you know are lucky enough to have to experience any disabilities or you know to have any periods of like kind of low mobility low accessibility it's hard for us to see who is this for but then like it can be like a very much uh the rising tide lifts all boats and i actually think i don't get one i'm serious you guys i think you get you get one of these if when you see that it exists you immediately go oh i know exactly what i'd use that for yes you know what i mean because like When I first saw it, I was like, well, that's really silly.

27:16But I've never put my e-reader on a table and read it like that. I'm always kind of reading it. But you talk about the laying in bed reading while snuggling or whatever. I do that with my daughter, right? My daughter's a man. I'm reading her a story. And sometimes the way we're intertangled is super inconvenient. So yes, I get it. well you know I actually will buy I might buy one for my sister but you know if you have someone in your life who maybe doesn't necessarily need a tappy but does need some fancy gift guess what we have lots of options for you over at dailytechnewsshow.com slash store we have mugs, t-shirts, mouse pads all with our new DTNS logo and again if you need a great gift and also want to support the show there you go there you go

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29:22All right, now some quick headlines that are good to know might make you look smarter in the future. All right, well, Mozilla says Anthropics Mythos model helped its research team uncover and triage thousands of high severity bugs inside of Firefox, including some decade-old sandbox and HTML parsing flaws, leading to 423 bug fixes in April compared to 31 bug fixes one year earlier. Just a quick correction. Hundreds, not thousands. Thousands would have been amazing. I'm so sorry. It's okay. It says hundreds. I read thousands. My bad. It's hundreds, but still. Sometimes hundreds just feels like thousands because it's just a lot.

30:04I mean, if you have 10 of them, then you're there. But anyway, yeah, sorry, hundreds, not thousands. My bad. Whoop announced plans to launch in-app video visits with licensed clinicians in the U.S., integrate HealthX electronic health records and layer AI-driven health guidance on top of biometric data from its fitness wearable. Are you a Whoop user? I feel like maybe I've heard you say something about Whoop. I am. I might, we talked about this yesterday in the show, I might jettison Whoop for the new Fitbit air. So this is interesting, but have fun, Whoop. I'm on the way out. Might not be good enough.

30:41Yeah. Yeah. I'll come back for this one. French cybercrime prosecutors have escalated their 2025 probe into Elon Musk and the X platform into a formal criminal investigation over the platform's generation and spread of deepfakes and non-consensual sexual images. and alleged manipulation of French politics in the algorithm. Thanks to Piscator NF in the subreddit for this follow-up on yesterday's quick hit that Samsung unions were threatening an 18-day strike for a 7 % pay rise and 15 % of operating profit. Now, the chip workers union has rejected Samsung's one-time$340 ,000 per head bonus offer and is demanding guaranteed annual profit sharing instead.

31:30OpenAI released a Codex Chrome extension that lets the AI test web apps, pull contacts from open tabs, and work with Chrome dev tools in parallel. Also, OpenAI added a trusted contact feature to ChatGPT. It lets adults nominate or choose a friend who can be alerted by a trained human reviewer at the company if that user's chats show a serious risk of self-harm? Well, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and President COO Michelle Zatlin posted that the company will lay off more than 1 ,000 employees globally who are in support roles made redundant by new generative tools. Prince said on Cloudflare's earning call, quote, I would guess that in 2027 we will have more employees than we did at any point in 2026, but the roles are changing dramatically, and you have to do something dramatic to make that shift.

32:25And finally, gaming-related once again, Valve is reopening sales of its$99 retooled Steam controller today through a one-per-customer reservation system, very controlled, that's limited to existing Steam buyers in good standing. This is what they're doing to curb scalpers. The first batch that they sold, sold out in minutes and then immediately went to eBay with steep markups. So they're trying to avoid that again. It's really easy. By the way, y 'all, if you're interested, both my husband and I missed out, you just have to log into Steam, go to the page and you literally hit a button and there's not even any like confetti or anything.

33:04You just hit a button and you're in the queue. Oh, cool. Did you do that? I did do that. Yes, I did do that. So there you go. Yeah, very good tip. We end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives. Today, Mark explains one of the risks from Microsoft's policy of leaving passwords from the Edge browser in plain text in memory. Well, Mark W. writes, Microsoft's response about passwords in the clear on Edge is correct. You have to be an admin to get to the memory by design. However, there have been many vulnerabilities like Heartbleed that gave access to memory like encryption keys. Edge would be just as vulnerable in these cases as well.

33:44Zero trust principles like assume breach suggests not trusting one factor, like admin rights, to protect data. Mark W, Detroit, Michigan. P.S., those Cubs have been very annoying this year to non-fans. okay like i can't tell you that i have any sort of context on the cubs but i trust you sorry yes thank you mark um that is actually kind of creepy uh and also um i guess on the on the spot of encryption keys um i so i'm i'm not a security expert in the slightest mark w so please feel free to write in if i'm just kind of taking this in the wrong case um the fact that it the fact that there are vulnerabilities out there like heartbeat that gave access to memory like encryption keys, would that like also include things like pass keys, which I kind of assumed were just, I mean, I mean, I know that they are much more secure, but that, you know, like that there are vulnerabilities out there that kind of circumvent what normally we would assume to be very solid things.

34:38And as you said, like maybe just having, just being admin is probably not enough. Maybe that, maybe that feels like a very simplistic statement again, as someone who is not a security person. So I guess just generally, yeah, love this kind of feedback because it's very illuminating to maybe how honestly how i don't know deep these things go to i guess to put a point um but yeah anyway uh if you have what are you thinking about are you also a security expert that needs to learn us some new things um or just have any insights about anything else we would love to hear it share it with us feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com yes and big thank you once again to mark w for contributing to today's show thank you for watching and listening to the show you can keep us in business by becoming a patron.

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