gaming hardware

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A PlayStation 5 console. US unit sales fell 58% year-over-year in May 2026 after Sony's second price hike in less than a year.

PS5 sales just fell 58% — and Nintendo won by doing the one thing Sony and Microsoft wouldn't

PlayStation 5 unit sales fell 58% and Xbox hit its worst month ever after price hikes tied to the AI memory shortage — while Switch 2 grew 38% by holding its price. That's about to change.

Hitbox · Aug 21 · 7 min

Hardware

every way to buy a gaming GPU just got more expensive — all at once

AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.

Voltage · Aug 5 · 7 min

AMD Radeon RX 9050 graphics card, AMD's new entry-level RDNA 4 GPU

Hardware

AMD brought back the 4GB graphics card everyone agreed was dead — here's why

The $279 RX 9050 looks like a normal budget GPU launch, until you notice AMD quietly brought back a 64-bit, 4GB memory config nobody's shipped since 2022.

Voltage · Aug 1 · 6 min

Official artwork for Rockstar Games' upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI

Gaming

Every site knows exactly what GPU GTA 6 needs. weird how none of them agree with each other

Rockstar hasn't published a single official spec, and the PC version isn't landing anytime soon — here's what the predictions actually say, and why I wouldn't buy a GPU for this specific game yet.

Hitbox · Jul 31 · 6 min