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David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
The Switch 2 is a hit (and a supply chain success story). Microsoft is starting to show off its plan for the future of Xbox. And everywhere you look, there are reasons to think we’re headed toward a very different kind of gaming device. Maybe it’ll be even more modular and portable. Maybe it’ll be even more like a Windows PC. Maybe it’ll be all that a bunch of other things besides.
On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk all about the future of gaming. We’ll have more of a Switch 2 review on the show next Tuesday, but for now there’s a lot of Xbox Ally stuff to talk about, and 3.5 million Switch 2s to reckon with. Before we get into that, though, we talk a bit more about this year’s WWDC, why Apple executives spent so much time apologizing for and explaining Siri, and why F1 seemed to be what the company actually wanted to talk about.
After that, we run through some AI news. Because there’s a lot of it. Disney is suing Midjourney; Google Zero is rapidly approaching; Alexa Plus is apparently actually out there; and the Dia browser has some big ideas about chatbots. And it all uses some water, says Sam Altman, citing no sources.
Finally, in the lightning round, it’s time for another round of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, plus the latest on the Warner Bros. Discovery split, some super-fast USB drives, and Meta’s next new messaging platform.
If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, beginning with gaming and gadget news:
And in AI news:
And in the lightning round:
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