2025 Console & Handheld Gaming Showdown: PS5 vs Xbox vs Switch 2 vs Steam Deck & More

The gaming landscape in 2025 is more diverse and exciting than ever. Traditional home consoles from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have been joined by a wave of powerful handheld gaming PCs. Gamers can now choose between cutting-edge systems like the PlayStation 5, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo’s brand-new Switch 2 hybrid, Valve’s PC-based Steam Deck, and Windows portables like the ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. Each platform offers unique hardware specs, game libraries, online services, and value propositions. In this report, we’ll compare the latest and most popular consoles and handhelds of 2025, and peek at what’s coming in 2026 – including credible leaks and upcoming systems – to help you decide which gaming system best fits your needs.

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Everything We Know About the PlayStation 6: Leaks, Specs, Release Date & Expert Predictions

Everything We Know About the PlayStation 6: Leaks, Specs, Release Date & Expert Predictions

The PlayStation 5 is still going strong, but Sony already has its eyes on the future. Rumors and official hints about the PlayStation 6 are piling up, giving gamers plenty to speculate about. From executive comments and patent filings to insider leaks, we’re starting to get an idea of what the next-gen PlayStation might bring. In this report, we’ll break down everything currently known about the PS6 – including official statements from Sony, credible leaks on hardware specs and features, expected release timing, expert quotes, and how it might stack up against the next Xbox and Nintendo’s plans.
21 July 2025
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This Week in Tech: Game Preservation, AI Breakthroughs, Next-Gen Devices, and the Industry’s Growing Pains / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 12:01 CET

This Week in Tech: Game Preservation, AI Breakthroughs, Next-Gen Devices, and the Industry’s Growing Pains / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 12:01 CET

The EU petition Stop Killing Games surpassed one million signatures after Ubisoft removed The Crew and EA announced Anthem’s sunset in January 2026. Microsoft’s Xbox division conducted mass layoffs and dissolved Turn 10 Studios, with staff redirected to support Forza Horizon after CFO Amy Hood’s aggressive targets post-Activision Blizzard King acquisition. <li Arkane Studios founder Raphael Colantonio called Xbox Game Pass unsustainable and harmful to the industry, echoed by Larian Studios' Michael Douse warning of fewer risk-taking games. A new AI system, MAI-DxO, demonstrated diagnostic accuracy four times higher than human doctors and showed potential cost savings through AI-assisted medicine.
6 July 2025
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Tech News Weekly: Interstellar Visitors, AI Booms, Gaming Upheaval, and the Future of Devices / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 12:00 CET

Tech News Weekly: Interstellar Visitors, AI Booms, Gaming Upheaval, and the Future of Devices / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 12:00 CET

3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system, about 20 kilometers in diameter, detected by NASA’s ATLAS telescope, with a closest approach of 270 million kilometers. Nvidia briefly reached a $3.92 trillion market cap, the highest on record, driven by surging demand for AI chips. Microsoft announced 9,000 job cuts (about 4% of its workforce), primarily in middle management, as it pivots to AI and cloud and cancels projects like Perfect Dark and the Forza Motorsport series. Samsung’s Galaxy G Fold is a tri-fold smartphone with a near 10-inch display when unfolded, using a G-shaped
5 July 2025
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Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Innovation, Gaming, and the Cosmos / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 00:00 CET

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Innovation, Gaming, and the Cosmos / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 00:00 CET

Microsoft laid off about 9,100 employees in 2025, primarily in the Xbox division, with Turn 10, Rare, The Initiative, and ZeniMax Europe hit hardest and projects like Perfect Dark, Everwild, and Blackbird canceled. The Stop Killing Games campaign surpassed 1,000,000 signatures, prompting the European Commission to review remote game shutdowns and digital preservation, with supporters including Elon Musk and PewDiePie; examples cited include Ubisoft’s The Crew and Anthem. EA announced Anthem servers will shut down on January 12, 2026, with premium currency sales already ceased and the game removed from EA Play in August 2024, and no offline mode. 3I/ATLAS,
5 July 2025
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Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Devices, AI, Cloud, Gaming, and Space / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:01 CET

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Devices, AI, Cloud, Gaming, and Space / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:01 CET

Oracle signs a $30 billion annual cloud deal to lease 4.5GW of computing power to OpenAI for the Stargate data center, aiming to double Oracle’s cloud sales by 2028. OpenAI’s Stargate expansion, in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank, will build massive AI infrastructure in Texas, reinforcing a sovereign AI push and multi-cloud strategies. Distributed cloud architectures are becoming the norm, spreading resources across on-premises, public cloud, and edge to improve latency and regulatory compliance while raising governance and security challenges. Fairphone 6 emphasizes repairability with a modular design and replaceable camera modules, priced at €599 at MediaMarkt and built around
3 July 2025
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