W05 | 2026

Games Industry Executive Summary | February 6, 2026

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🎯 Highlights

• Numerous video game company share prices dropped following Google’s Project Genie AI rollout

• AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release | Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing

🆕 News

• Overwatch 2 Is Ditching the '2' Amid Launch of 'New, Story-Driven Era' With 10 New Heroes

• Newzoo’s final 2025 rankings just dropped

• Fortnite “still remains the biggest game in the world on many fronts”, Epic says, but its playtime dropped noticeably in 2025

• Apex Legends For Switch Shutting Down This Year, But Switch 2 Edition Lives On

• Nintendo Silent on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Sales, Prompting Fan Concern Over the Series’ Future

• AMD CEO Says Next Gen Xbox On Track To Launch In 2027

• Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third

📈 Industry Trends

• Microsoft reports 9% decrease in gaming revenue for Q2

• Paradox operating profit dropped 162% year-on-year as it writes down Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2

• Investors Worried about Switch 2 Sales, Nintendo Shares Fall 11 Percent

• One-Third of Video Game Workers Laid Off in Past 2 Years

• Report: UK retailer GAME is going into administration again

🤫 Rumors

• No Rumors!

🔢 Numbers

• Nintendo Switch 2 Sales Reach 17.37 Million Worldwide

• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon - 1 million copies sold

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