![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/G0AQ0-UXUAA8FXn.jpeg\")
@PUBG<\/p>\n@PUBG<\/p>\n
Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery!<\/p>\n
As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we\u2019re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone. Additionally, you have complete control over what we send to you. If you don\u2019t want to receive This Week in Stratechery emails (there is no podcast), please uncheck the box in your delivery settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n On that note, here were a few of our favorites this week.<\/p>\n What Happened to Video Games? For decades video games were hailed as the industry of the future, as their growth and eventually total revenue dwarfed other forms of entertainment. Over the last five years, however, things have gotten dark \u2014 and what light there is is shining on everyone other than game developers. I\u2019ve been talking to Matthew Ball about the state of the video game industry every year for the last three years, and this week\u2019s Interview<\/a> was my favorite one of the series: what happens when you actually have to fight for attention, and when everything that made you exciting \u2014 particularly interactivity and immersiveness \u2014 start to be come liabilities?\u2014 Ben Thompson<\/p>\n The NBA Is a Mess,\u00a0For Now.\u00a0As a card-carrying pro basketball sicko who will be watching the NBA the rest of my life, it brings me no joy to report the league is not in a great place at the moment. We\u2019re reliving the mid-aughts Spurs-Pistons Dark Ages, but with too much offense instead of too much defense, and a regular season that\u2019s 20 games too long. I wrote about all of it on Sharp Text this week<\/a>, including problems that can be fixed, others\u00a0that may be solved with time, and whether Commissioner Adam Silver is the right leader to address any of these issues.\u00a0\u2014 Andrew Sharp<\/p>\n Shopify and the Future of E-Commerce.\u00a0In the midst of the ongoing thrum of SaaSpocalypse takes, I enjoyed that Ben\u2019s Daily Update on Wednesday pumped the brakes on the panic in at least one area: Shopify is fine, actually<\/a>. We went deeper on this week\u2019s episode of Sharp Tech<\/a>, exploring not only Shopify\u2019s value propositions, but the shifting dynamics of e-commerce in the AI era, the sorts of businesses that are likely to emerge in the years to come, and why certain structural advantages from previous paradigms will not only be durable, but even stronger going forward.\u00a0\u2014 AS<\/p>\n Stratechery Articles and Updates<\/p>\n Sharp Text by Andrew Sharp<\/p>\n Dithering with Ben Thompson and Daring Fireball\u2019s John Gruber<\/p>\n Asianometry with Jon Yu<\/p>\n Greatest of All Talk with Andrew Sharp and WaPo\u2019s Ben Golliver<\/p>\n Sharp Tech with Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson<\/p>\n This week\u2019s Sharp Tech video is on Anthropic\u2019s Super Bowl lies.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"@PUBG Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we\u2019re sending out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-488258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}