I am more interested in thermals, battery, bugs and call reception/data speed. Gaming is only should be done on a PC, where you can put your coffee and smoke a joint.

"The Pixel 7 pro is so good with all the specs I need, I love the new look and colors of the phone, also the 7 Pro specs are great! The QHD+  LTPO OLED 120 Hz Display made with Gorilla Glass Victus is what I expected in this phone, this display is so great with colors, black level, and HDR! I've had no eye strain after using this phone for 2 days and the 6.7-inch phone suits my hands! The 5000 mAh Battery is the best for a high-end phone that uses more high processor to run so it would run all day without draining out soon! 12 GB RAM is not even on my PC which is so huge but is this real, cause iPhones only have 4-6 GB ram and give a good performance than other phones? This phone is very smooth to use even when gaming it is not getting heated up because of the RAM and processor! I like the triple camera which looks wired but cool, a 50 MP wide camera, a 12 MP ultrawide camera, and a 48 MP telephoto camera which gives out the best quality images that are so natural! I use a pixel camera on my old Redmi device it gives out great images that have no fake layers of sharpening and whites. Overall this phone is great but does have cons which all the phone does, software bugs, fingerprint sensors, and battery life which is not good but they can be enhanced with future updates!
As I was searching for many cases for my Pixel 7 Pro, they all looked the same and made the phone bulky to use so I got this 3m skin from Gadgetshieldz which can self-heal the scratches and stick well and love the new look!"

The premise of this article is retarded

Gaming. Nope

Notebookcheck used come out with actual engineering spec articles that were useful to read. This article shows their decline in a spotlight.

If you game on your phone that's great, but most people that buy this phone are not interested in gaming on it.

Google aren't targeting gamers on the new pixel 7. The chip, whilst isn't impressive considering performance, is sufficient and excels in some other aspects compared to other phones like speech recognition and image processing. They also have great software to support the hardware.

This is only the 2nd generation of tensor processors and considering that this is their own in house produced processors it's pretty impressive that its beating exynos which has been around much longer.

Let's just hope the tensor chips become more competitive in the future, and when I say that I mean on the levels of apple processors (efficiency/performance wise) considering the size of Google as a company.

Seriously people play Mobile games? I have yet to find one that isn't a complete pay to win scam. Buy a steam deck or a Switch and be done with it.

This article makes no sense, why would you buy a pixel 7 for gaming, i have always owned a pixel phone and never had an issue even playing games, i mean what are you playing big power hungry 3d games, that phone just came out why would you bash it so bad, you probably have a fruit phone or a galaxy phone, how about the pixel is a clean phone with no bloatware a pure android experience

I love my Google Pixels. I've now had the 3XL, 5, 6 Pro, and 7 Pro. I didn't buy them for gaming which it can do OK but that's not the main draw to the Pixel line. If you value photography, fast updates, and plain Android...this is your smartphone. Good luck with that on your gaming smartphone because it isn't happening.

Pointless article...

We all buy a flagship phones for different reasons. Gaming is bottom of my list, in fact it doesn't make the list.

I've been very impressed with Pixel 7 Pro so far, in particular the camera, like all pixel phones I've owned, its fantastic! And that's what I'm looking for.

Hilarious to see the lookalike comments here. I'm guessing the average age hovers around 50.

Who uses a phone to play video games? How important is it to the market?

Well, if you knew what Genshin Impact is, you'd know the answers are "a gigantic amount of people play video games on their phone" and "performance playing video games, ESPECIALLY this particular video game, is extremely important to the phone market".

What kind of idiot would buy a Pixel phone for gaming? If the Pixel annoys the plebs who use phones for gaming, then that's a big win for me.

Now excuse me - I'd like to complain about how crappy my PS5 is at taking photos.

Ugh...
At least mention that these are ONSCREEN numbers... thus not comparable between devices unless they are running at the same resolution.

Based on the comments it seems you didn't fool many people, and hopefully they'll, like me, reconsider coming to this site for such "news".