Cause I work a shitty job that doesn't let me use laptops and the commute home means I barely get time in front of a computer. At least nowadays phones have games I can play for a couple of minutes at a time like Wild Rift, LoR, Genshin and etc on the way home in the train.

Mobile gaming gets a bad rep but I enjoy it. Isn't that reason enough?

That's such a stupid argument. Flagship phones are already good at playing games by virtue of having flagship chips. I'd understand if you said you needed to sacrifice some things in order to make gaming work but the fact of the matter is that Google promised, and I quote:

>"Google itself has disclosed key design elements of the Pixel 7," said Avi Greengart, founder and lead analyst at Techsponential. "So the real surprises will come in terms of new software and details on the Tensor 2’s power, efficiency and any unique attributes."

They said they would make up for it by making the tensor chip not just efficient, but also at least competitive in terms of power. And yes, the pixel 7 series battery is a marked step up from the pixel 6 line, which was just bad.

But as per GSMArena's review, it manages a 96h standby time, which is really good, but still beaten by so many other phones with comparable battery capacities like the ASUS Zenfone 9 with 108h standby time which is ALSO running the Snapdragon and is just faster.

Performance on the Tensor G2 is literally almost the same in Genshin Impact as a Exynos 2100, a chip which was infamous in the community for being bad, IN THE SAMSUNG S21 that almost came out two years ago!

One can argue that the TPU's in the chip are worth it, but was it really worth having a chip perform at the subpar range of a subpar chip that came out 2 years ago for... Magic eraser and perfect diction??? The killer feature of the Pixel line is the camera, and that has always been good, all the way back since the pixel line was introduced.

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TL:DR; is Google wanted to pull and Apple and control the manufacturing process from chip to hardware to save money, and we're left with a phone that leaves a shit ton of performance on the table for "magic eraser" and "perfect diction" features. Google can still make amazing cameras without the Tensor, so it feels like a step backwards.

Your analogy literally isn't comparable. A closer comparison would be taking the engine out of a Prius and then sticking it into a Ferrari with a modern dashboard. Cause the engine is shit but the outside is pretty and the dashboard is futuristic and nice.

Edit: Also, your price analogy is also horrible. You're already paying a premium for the Pixel brand, it's lot like they passed on the savings to the consumer after moving to their own chips. You're still paying full price for LESS power.

That's kind of the problem, since I like everything else about the phone

I mean, that's great and all Google, but I'd like to actually play games at high settings without throttling.

Honestly still copium that Sony releases a PSPhone one day