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The Best Game Consoles and Handhelds (2026)

Every current home console and major gaming handheld ranked for a buyer in fall 2026: the games you can play, performance, portability, and what the hardware costs after a year of memory-driven price increases (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Valve all raised prices in 2025-2026). Prices are US list prices in USD where the latest figure could be confirmed; otherwise the entry gives the last confirmed figure and says so.

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Nintendo Switch 2

The best-selling console of the moment, with 23.68 million sold by June 30, 2026. It plays docked at up to 4K60 or handheld on a 7.9-inch 1080p 120Hz HDR screen, has 256GB of storage expandable with microSD Express, and runs Nintendo's exclusives, which is the real reason to buy it. Nintendo raised the US price from US$449.99 to US$499.99 on September 1, 2026, and some games are US$80. Battery life is 2 to 6.5 hours.

4 pros · 4 cons

Sony PlayStation 5 Pro

The best-looking way to play console games on a TV. The Pro's faster GPU and PSSR upscaling give sharper images and steadier frame rates in enhanced games, and it plays the whole PS5 library plus most PS4 games. It is expensive and getting more so: it launched at US$699 without a disc drive, rose US$50 in August 2025 and another US$150 on April 2, 2026, which works out to about US$899 in the US.

4 pros · 3 cons

Sony PlayStation 5

The default home console: the biggest library of big-budget games, Sony's exclusives, and the DualSense controller's haptics. The disc model rose US$50 to about US$549 in August 2025, and the Digital Edition reached about US$499 after a second increase on April 2, 2026. For most players it is better value than the Pro, and the disc version lets you buy cheaper used games.

4 pros · 3 cons

Valve Steam Deck OLED

The handheld that plays your existing Steam library. A 7.4-inch HDR OLED at 90Hz and 1,000 nits, 16GB of LPDDR5X, a 50Wh battery and a polished SteamOS interface that makes PC gaming feel like a console. The LCD model was discontinued in December 2025, and on May 27, 2026 Valve raised the 512GB OLED to US$789 and the 1TB to US$949. Demanding new games run at reduced settings.

4 pros · 3 cons

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X

The most powerful mainstream handheld, built with Microsoft. AMD's Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme, 24GB of LPDDR5X, a 1TB SSD and a 7-inch 1080p 120Hz VRR screen, with an Xbox full-screen experience over Windows that plays Steam, Xbox and other PC stores. It launched in October 2025 at US$999.99. Windows remains clunkier than SteamOS, and Tom's Hardware measured big gains switching to Bazzite (32 percent in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2).

4 pros · 4 cons

Microsoft Xbox Series X

The value is in Game Pass rather than exclusives, since most Xbox games now also come to PC and other consoles. The Series X is quiet, fast and plays four generations of Xbox games. It launched at US$499.99, rose to US$649.99 during 2025, and Microsoft raised prices again on August 1, 2026 (we could not confirm the new US figure). The 2TB model is being discontinued, and a Series X25 limited edition arrives in November.

4 pros · 3 cons

Valve Steam Machine

Valve's living-room PC running SteamOS, launched June 29, 2026 after delays tied to memory costs. A six-core Zen 4 CPU, a 28-compute-unit RDNA 3 GPU with 8GB GDDR6 (comparable to a Radeon RX 7600M), 16GB DDR5 and 512GB or 2TB storage. It costs US$1,049 for 512GB, and Valve's engineers said the price was significantly higher than they first targeted. The single-channel memory and 8GB GPU limit its long-term headroom.

4 pros · 3 cons

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally

The cheaper version of the Xbox handheld, at US$599.99 at its October 2025 launch. It shares the 7-inch 1080p 120Hz VRR screen and the Xbox full-screen experience, but uses the Ryzen Z2 A (four Zen 2 cores and eight RDNA 2 graphics cores) with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage. That chip is far weaker than the Ally X's, so it suits older and lighter PC games. Compare it against a Steam Deck OLED.

4 pros · 3 cons

Microsoft Xbox Series S

The smallest and cheapest Xbox, digital only. It runs current Xbox and Game Pass games at lower resolutions than the Series X, which is fine on a 1080p TV or for a kid's room. It launched at US$299.99, rose to US$399.99 during 2025, and was part of Microsoft's further price increase on August 1, 2026 (we could not confirm the new US price). Storage fills fast, and it has no disc drive.

4 pros · 4 cons

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