By @CNET
Publication Date: 2026-02-14 13:01:00
Google launched its latest Pixel 10 series, including the standard model and the more powerful Pixel 10 Pro, back in September, offering iterative hardware upgrades and new AI features. But for those of us who love to burn through our battery life playing games on premium phones, there’s another concern: How is gaming on the Pixel 10 Pro?
As a flagship phone with the most powerful specs Google has ever put into a (nonfolding) phone, the Pixel 10 Pro exceeds the baseline expectations for a $999 phone. (As I write this, you can buy a Pixel 10 Pro for $799 — $200 off.) It has a sharp OLED display and high-performance specs, so it has little trouble playing the latest games.
But some of Google’s hardware choices make the Pixel 10 Pro limited in ways that the OnePlus 15 and iPhone 17 Pro are not — namely, in storage and charging. Google’s phone also has a lot to live up to with its gaming capabilities, as previous Pixel phones haven’t been known for their processing power and…
