CES 2025: What to Anticipate from NPC and MacStories
At present, I started packing my bag filled with the gear I’m bringing to CES. I’m excited as a result of it’s shaping as much as be a really NPC CES.
Brendon, Federico, and I began NPC: Subsequent Transportable Console as a result of we every sensed that handheld gaming had reached a tipping level. Due to the Nintendo Swap and Steam Deck, corporations all over the world have spent the previous yr experimenting with new methods to make gaming extra moveable.
I’ve coated CES from afar for years at this level and at all times get pleasure from it. Certain, a variety of CES quantities to incremental modifications to TVs and new makes an attempt to embed screens into kitchen home equipment. But when that’s all you see, you’re not paying shut sufficient consideration. The enjoyable of CES is discovering what’s new and attempting to separate the vaporware from really progressive concepts. Plus, Bizarre CES by no means disappoints, bringing really weird devices to life that everybody ought to learn about. Who can neglect Qoobo the headless cat robotic?
This isn’t technically my first CES. Till the mid-‘90s, the present was held in Chicago and New York, and it was open to the general public. I went a couple of years earlier than it moved to Las Vegas and had a blast. That was a very long time in the past, however with the rise of handheld gaming, the time felt proper to return.
Over the summer time and into the autumn because the rumors of recent Home windows and SteamOS units gained momentum, it turned clear that handheld producers had been focusing on CES for splashy bulletins. That’s the principle motive Brendon and I are heading to Las Vegas. We’ll be roaming the present ground to see what’s coming subsequent and get a way of the place handhelds are heading in 2025 and past.
Nonetheless, as excited as we’re about moveable consoles, that’s not all we’ll be masking. There’s much more to CES, so we’ll even be looking out for the newest in good residence {hardware}, AR glasses, headphones, audio system, something with an e-ink display, and extra.
What we plan to deliver to you right here and on the MacStories YouTube channel is one thing uniquely NPC and MacStories: insights into what to anticipate from the following wave of moveable videogame {hardware} and the opposite devices price keeping track of within the new yr, plus a sprinkling of the weirdly fantastic “what had been they considering?” {hardware}.
To observe alongside, you’ll find our protection on MacStories.web below the tag ‘CES 2025’ and this devoted RSS feed. You’ll additionally discover two playlists on our YouTube channel: ‘NPC @ CES’ for handheld gaming information and ‘MacStories @ CES’ for all the pieces else. Plus, make sure you go to Brendon’s weblog Wavelengths for much more protection from him.
