{"id":510683,"date":"2026-06-21T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:11:08","slug":"weekly-poll-what-device-do-you-use-for-gaming-a-smartphone-tablet-pc-or-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510683\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly poll: what device do you use for gaming? A smartphone, tablet, PC or console?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gaming market has had a rough go of it this decade \u2013 first COVID slowed down the rollout of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, then the crypto boom vacuumed up available GPUs, now AI has made RAM chips the new gold.<\/p>\n

This has led to smartphone makers rising prices<\/a>, but PCs and consoles are just as affected \u2013 the PS5<\/a>, the Xbox<\/a>, the Steam Deck<\/a> and the Nintendo Switch<\/a> all got more expensive. And that\u2019s just some of the more high-profile products. Services are feeling the pain too \u2013 Microsoft wanted to raise the price of Game Pass, but changed its mind<\/a> after loud complaints from users.<\/p>\n

\"Weekly<\/p>\n

Things are so bad that Nvidia is re-releasing the GeForce RTX 3060 (originally from 2020), AMD is re-releasing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D (from 2022) and Intel is reportedly looking into new designs that will work with DDR4 RAM.<\/p>\n

Smartphones rarely re-use old silicon, though it has been known to happen. The problem is that cutting-edge nodes are pricey, so flagships and high-end gaming phones are getting more expensive. And now mid-rangers are seeing price increases too.<\/p>\n

All of this had us wondering \u2013 what do you all use for gaming? A PC or perhaps an x86 handheld? An ARM handheld, be it the Switch or otherwise? A home console or a game streaming service? A tablet or a smartphone?<\/p>\n

Note: you can pick more than one option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gaming market has had a rough go of it this decade \u2013 first COVID slowed down the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-510683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}