{"id":2839,"date":"2026-09-13T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/is-there-any-benefit-to-restarting-your-gaming-handheld-regularly\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:30:00","slug":"is-there-any-benefit-to-restarting-your-gaming-handheld-regularly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/is-there-any-benefit-to-restarting-your-gaming-handheld-regularly\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there any benefit to restarting your gaming handheld regularly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your Steam Deck, Switch or Ally may benefit from occasional restarts. Here&#8217;s why you should consider it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/is-there-any-benefit-to-restarting-your-gaming-handheld-regularly\/intro-1788786532.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/is-there-any-benefit-to-restarting-your-gaming-handheld-regularly\/\">Is there any benefit to restarting your gaming handheld regularly?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Steam Deck, Switch or Ally may benefit from occasional restarts. Here&#8217;s why you should consider it. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; Is there any benefit to restarting your gaming handheld regularly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}