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Nintendo Switch 2 hits store shelves in global launch
Nintendo's (NTDOY, 7974.T) Switch 2 gaming console is here, taking over store shelves around the world. The Japanese gaming giant is expecting to sell 15 million units in this initial launch. Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley reports more on the Switch 2 launch and the competition in the portable gaming space. Catch Yahoo Finance's full interview with former Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé from July 2024. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. Well, the Nintendo Switch 2 is officially out with lines across the US and the world as gamers head to their nearest retailer to pick up the new console. The first Nintendo Switch launched in 2017. It sold 152 million units. Nintendo expecting to sell 15 million units of the Switch 2 this year, despite potential headwinds from global trade tensions. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley joining us now with more. Dan, great to speak with you about this launch. Uh very exciting for the gamers out there. What are you anticipating in terms of the success of this launch for Nintendo? Yeah, very exciting for the gamers, very excited for me. I got my Super Nintendo uh controller above my head there, uh dissected. But uh for the the company itself, this is uh a huge launch. I mean, this happens once every seven to 10 years. Uh Nintendo last launched this in 2017. So this is a a huge deal for for them. The success of the switch was virtually unprecedented for their home console brands. Uh they're generally uh go between a ebb and flow kind of pattern when it comes to the success of of those consoles. So we had the huge success of the switch. Now we have to see if they can break that ebb and flow pattern for the switch too. And the ebb and flow pattern I'm referring to is you go from the the Super Nintendo to the Nintendo 64, the GameCube, uh you know, that didn't sell sell well. Then they had the Wii, which everyone, you know, saw and used, and then we had the Wii U, which didn't do well, and then the switch. And the switch uh basically kind of introduced a new type of gaming uh to the industry, the the handheld style uh for full-sized games. Obviously, there were things like the Game Boy before this, but these were full regular games that you would then be able to also play on your TV. And so now there are competitors from uh we have a portable from Sony now with their uh PlayStation uh portal. Uh we also have Windows-based competitors uh from the likes of uh Steam, uh as well as Asus and and other PC companies. So this really did kind of set up a a new kind of gaming. But for Nintendo, this is an absolute must. Uh the console, as you can see, 449, that's a big price jump from the $300 of the original. If you get the game uh Mario Kart World with it, it's 499 uh 499. So you save a little bit of money there uh if you do that that bundle. New Joy-Cons, uh they're now magnetic. Uh they can also be used as a mouse. And then yes, they have built-in chat as well as new multiplayer features where you can set up a little camera. Uh it's built into a PD Piranha plant, uh that Piranha that eats Mario in the games, uh and you'd be able to communicate with other players. So they're going whole hog into to the idea of being able to connect. That's obviously social part is a big part of gaming nowadays. Uh and Nintendo really going into that, but this needs to be a huge success for them and it's kind of a risk uh sticking to that same pattern, something they don't usually do. Dan, we only got 30 seconds here. Were you at the Switch launch event in New York last night? No, I I wasn't, thankfully. I avoided. I do have Look, man, I don't even know why I'm talking to you guys. Target's supposed to be shipping mine today. I'm not getting any updates, so I I need to know where it's at. All right. Uh I guess we won't tell anyone to go stand outside of your apartment and just wait for that shipment. Uh we know that there's a lot of eager people trying to get their hands on those. Dan, good luck. Bring it in studio, why not? Let's just put it up on one of the screens in here. Start playing Mario Kart. Exactly. Thanks so much, Dan. Appreciate it. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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Trump planning to extend TikTok ban deadline: Reports
According to various reports, President Trump may be considering another extension to the TikTok ban deadline — June 19 — which originally outlined a stoppage to US operations unless Chinese parent company ByteDance divested from the popular social media platform. Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley reports more on this. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination here. President Trump is planning to extend the TikTok deadline, again, um, at least that's according to a report. So what can you tell us about that? Yeah, TikTok was supposed to go dark or something was supposed to happen. We don't really know, uh, later this month. The the original deadline was back in April, and that was extended and now the June deadline's coming up. Uh and this is uh, according to the New York Post, they're they're going to extend it again, or President Trump could extend it again. There's been talk back and forth about, you know, deals going on between US companies and trying to maybe tie this up with with a trade deal with China, figure out how to get TikTok to be a US company, or not owned primarily by a Chinese entity. Uh you know, there's been talk about different companies getting in there. Oracle, Walmart was floated around uh for a while. It it really doesn't seem like there's any, you know, outside movement to to the outside world. There it doesn't seem to be any any movement. Uh obviously, these are all negotiations behind closed doors, but I think, you know, it at this point, Trump has shown that he he supports TikTok, he likes TikTok. He's, you know, kind of credits it with helping him win over younger voters. I don't think he's gonna let it go away. It at this point, though, it's just how far can you kick this can down the road before something happens? Dan, thank you. Appreciate it. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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What Apple needs to address in its AI business at WWDC 2025
Apple's (AAPL) 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off next week, starting on Monday, June 9. Many on Wall Street will be keeping their eyes and ears open for any new information or updates to the Apple Intelligence platform. Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley comes on Market Domination, outlining the major concerns around its AI business that Apple should address at WWDC. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination here. Sign in to access your portfolio
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Nintendo Switch 2 hits store shelves in global launch
Nintendo's (NTDOY, 7974.T) Switch 2 gaming console is here, taking over store shelves around the world. The Japanese gaming giant is expecting to sell 15 million units in this initial launch. Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley reports more on the Switch 2 launch and the competition in the portable gaming space. Catch Yahoo Finance's full interview with former Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé from July 2024. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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Apple WWDC 2025: What to expect
Apple's 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, June 9. The expectations are a bit muted this year, given the big AI announcements that came last year. In the video above, Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley shares what he will be watching from the big Apple (AAPL) event. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination here. We're going to stick with Apple here cuz it is kicking off its worldwide developers conference on Monday. Pivotal moment for Apple, as it competes in the AI race. From our Yahoo! Finance tech editor, Dan Howley. Dan, of course, this is the show where they get up there, it's Tim Cook, it's Craig Federighi himself, and you're talking to millions of developers. You're trying to convince them, "Hey, you wanna build in the Apple ecosystem." Yeah, I mean, and that's generally what they do. I think this year, the expectations are more subdued than in prior years. Just because last year, they had their huge AI rollout. That hasn't been going so hot for them. Siri, obviously, was put on the back burner. Now we're waiting to see when that's able to come out. So, we're still gonna get some good announcements this year, but not necessarily the big wowee that, you know, we got last year. For this year to just kind of prove what they're able to do in the AI race, they have to just show that they can compete. That they aren't an also-ran anymore. Obviously we have Google, they had their IO developer conference, Microsoft, they had their build developer conference, both of them rolling out these big AI functions that are getting consumers and enterprises excited. What does Apple have there? They also just give us an idea when Siri's coming, man! Like, I know they said later this year, sometime this year, but this was really the marquee piece of WWDC 2024. They showed off some of the great examples of how this could be used. One of them was, you know, say your mom's landing, flights landing, when should you leave or when do you expect the flight to land? Well, you'll ask Siri, it'll go into your email, your messages, find out what time the flight was expected to land, and then cross-reference that with flight tracking information, and say, "Okay, the flight's expected to land, blank." That's That sounds great! Sounds awesome. Not there yet. So we're gonna have to see where that is. By the way, that's the idea of agentic AI, and that's kind of where, you know, Microsoft's heading, where Google's heading. We have to see if Apple's able to do that. And then the other thing is, are they making their AI worthwhile for developers to build on? Now, there's been reports from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, basically saying that they're going to open up some of their own language models, their smaller language models that they use on device developers so that they'll be able to then build on Apple's own language models. We'll see if that ends up kind of goosing any kind of new type of app capability. You know, the idea here is, think about what happened with the App Store. They opened up the App Store, we have a whole ecosystem of products now, right? I mean, Ubers, you're not taking Ubers without the App Store, right? Not saying that that's going to be on this level, but that's the idea. Is you open it up to developers and then they just start to go wild, and perhaps that really starts to send Apple's AI capabilities, you know, out into outer space, right? So, that's the idea there. Everything kicks off on June 9th, and it'll be at their headquarters. I'll be there. Awesome. It's a great look, by the way. Sign in to access your portfolio
