PC Gaming Graphics Cards Are Basically A Rounding Error For Nvidia And It’s Acting Like It

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Nvidia is becoming that old friend who refuses to break it off but has clearly moved on. Nioh 3‘s devs don’t believe in adding an easy mode. And I’m not shocked but I am still disappointed that Oblivion Remastered isn’t even getting a game key card for its Switch 2 release. It’s the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. I’m closely and cautiously monitoring the Xenoblade Chronicles 4 gossip in hopes it might secretly end up being one of Nintendo’s big fall games for this year. That feels slightly ahead of schedule but a boy can dream.

Nvidia isn’t denying reports that its GeForce graphics card plans have slowed

The Information reports that the tech company at the epicenter of AI market shockwaves is scaling back producing of its 50-series graphics cards and delaying a mid-gen refresh of its Blackwell designs. Hardware leaker Kopite7kimi is claiming that a new 6090 batch of cards won’t appear until late 2027. And Nvidia isn’t pumping the brakes on all of this speculative doom and gloom.

“Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained,” it told IGN in a new statement. “We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability.” I feel better already! Don’t you?

But honestly, pulling back on PC gaming is exactly what every market signal is telling Nvidia to do at the moment. It’s quarterly revenue in 2014 was $1.23 billion. That set a record at the time. Last quarter it earned $4.3 billion from PC gaming alone, but gaming revenue was a much smaller proportion of the company’s business overall. Total revenue was over $50 billion, setting an all new record in which PC gaming accounted for just 8 percent.

In the meantime, Nvidia just agreed to dump $20 billion into OpenAI after originally promising up to $100 billion. That might seem like it’s hedging its bets, but $20 billion is still more than all the money the company will earn from its PC gaming business in the next year.

Ubisoft devs grill management on the publisher’s missteps

A townhall Q&A with CEO Yves Guillemot and others to re-instill confidence in the rank-and-file did anything but, according to Insider Gaming. The leadership team remained adamantly opposed to altering the company’s controversial new RTO policy and defended it by pointing to similar policies at competitors like Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, and Rockstar Games. What about more mass layoffs? In response to a question about cuts of over 2,000 employees, CFO Frederik Duguet was less than reassuring. “First of all, we must state very clearly that we have never shared such numbers externally, and as I’ve just said, we won’t share any more decisions today,” he reportedly told the group.

Square Enix has big FF7 plans for 2026

“This year, we plan to share more updates on the Final Fantasy VII Remake Project than ever before,” director Naoki Hamaguchi shared on Thursday after it was confirmed that Rebirth is coming to both Switch 2 and Xbox on June 3. Does that mean we’ll finally get the third part of the trilogy before the end of 2026? Or is this just the marketing machine ramping up for an early 2027 launch? It probably depends on Grand Theft Auto 6, as every other release date will this year.

Borderlands 4‘s newest content arrives later this month

Bounty Pack 2: Legend of the Stone Demon will go live on February 26, Gearbox Entertainment confirmed on Thursday. It will be “bite-sized-yet-flavorful narrative content” alongside free updates like the addition of Pearlescent gear. The next batch of main story missions, meanwhile, is called Mad Ellie and the Vault of the Damned and they’re coming in March along with a new vault hunter, the ex-casino bot C4SH.

Hideo Kojima is back in the video editing bay

“Editing for the first time in…8 months?” he tweeted with a sad face. Could this be for the rumored PlayStation State of Play taking place later this month? Current guesses are a PC port of Death Stranding 2 or a big DLC for it. Surely it’s too early for anything else?

Nioh 3 will not be giving casual players a break anytime soon

“We’ve never considered adding difficulty settings to the Nioh series,” director Masaki Fujita told Eurogamer. “The value of clearing the game is something that is unifying, and since Nioh 3 has even more variations on strategies to clear the game compared to previous games in the series, our approach is not to change the difficulty setting when you can’t clear it.”

Bethesda finds something Switch 2 players hate more than game key cards

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will come to Nintendo’s portable console as a cartridge with the full game on it. Fallout 4 and Oblivion Remastered, however, will not. They won’t even be game key cards. They’ll just be download codes in boxes. It sounds par for the course with how rough the ports look.