The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play
The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play
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The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play
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Its really great! really good display, good battery, good customizability and freedom. It is even pretty cheap for the steam decks performance.
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It's a fantastic backlog killer. Main PC for new titles, steam deck for indies and patient gamer style games.
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Christmas is coming op, you know what to gift me
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I'll get a steam deck as soon as I can detache the controller and put it on my TV like the Switch. While the Deck is probably amazing, it's what I need to get one, additional to the gaming PC. I always feel chained in, when my controller is made from one part only.
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Downvoted for the cringe af name
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It has a dock available.
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Yeah I have a usb dock with HDMI plugged into my TV, and an old Xbox One controller paired to the Deck. Basically works the same as a docked Switch
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If you can find them the old steam links still work well.
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Did they fix the joystick grinding in the OLED?
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Played Moonlighter for almost 10 hours the other day without being plugged in...
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Your telling me they removed the entirely functional, multiple hour lasting, 50 watt-hour, li-polymer battery pack...
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Its slightly better than the normal steamdeck. I wouldn't call it a radiant new dawn lol
I disagree. Better display, better battery and they adressed a lot of problems with repairability under the hood.
I have the old one. Next iteration will have the same better display along with better cpu/gpu/ram, current battery is more than enough for a day of my gaming needs and I doubt I will ever need to touch a screw let alone a repair. I’m glad there’s an upgrade at the same price for newcomers but it isn’t “radiant” anything.
I’m thinking some people having more joy at staring at the fps counter then play the game.
My thinking exactly. It's Malibu Stacy, but she has a new hat. This is just a really silly ad for a new product.
Exactly. It's neat that it's OLED, like the original Samsung Galaxy from 2009, but it'd be pretty neat if they've skipped right to 2013 and at least make it FullHD. You're supposed to overtake competition, not lag a decade behind.
I think you've missed the point of both the original Steam Deck and the recent update. Short version is that the screen is deliberately not 1080p because that would make it way more power-intensive, and the OLED version is deliberately not really changing the device specs. Look at some of the rivals/knock-offs which have come out in the last year - all the numbers are bigger, resolution, clock speed, power usage, weight...
The resolution is more than fine and I'm speaking from the perspective of an OG deck. Even if they brought the resolution up, the processor and battery wouldn't be able to keep pace with it.
I’d like to respectfully say you’re fucking dead wrong. The display is gorgeous, the increased framerate is amazing, the battery life is SO MUCH BETTER and it downloads games and launches faster. On top of having more storage space on the LE edition. And the charge cable is LONGER. I was actually able to play over 3 hours of deep rock on a flight and still have some charge left. If you use the device a lot it’s a massive upgrade.
Ok so let me get this straight. 1-3 more fps, a brighter screen and a bit more battery is now considered revolutionary for portable gaming. If that were the case then the rog ally or one of the other handhelds would be considered more revolutionary for portable gaming.