For all that has changed about Nvidia over the past couple of years, the chip maker still needs to show that it has its game on.
This will be ever more apparent over the next week. When Nvidia reports fiscal second-quarter results Thursday afternoon, revenue from the company’s videogame segment is expected to rise 48%, year over year, to about $1.75 billion. That is about 57% of Nvidia’s total revenue expected for the period and more than double the size of the company’s rapidly expanding data center business, which has been...