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The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play
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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.
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.
You got it crooked. 60hz to 90hz is a lot more than 1-2 frames. “A brighter screen” okay guess you don’t know what HDR is and have never seen the difference between LED and OLED. “A bit more battery” got me from 90 minutes of gaming to over 3 hours. For someone who actually uses the thing constantly, it’s huge. But continue to be ignorant because I doubt what I wrote will change that.
If you count 60 to 90hz as increased performance then sure you get more frames. I've used an oled switch and it does look good but it's definitely nothing game changing.
Steamdeck oled has a few nice to haves and nothing more. The release of the steamdeck changed the game for handheld gaming. The release of the steamdeck oled changes nothing. We've seen oleds on the switch, we've seen handhelds with good battery life and we've seen handhelds with high refresh rate monitors.
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...
People knock the Switch but you're not gonna do that much better without being noticeably heavier and hotter
Speaking of bigger numbers: Are there even any rivals larger than Steam Deck? The damn thing is wider than my laptop.
I think the point of the original Deck and the recent update are that they have too crappy of a screen to play non-demanding games, too weak hardware to play demanding games and too heavy of a body if what you do is just streaming from a PC.
I feel you're probably just trolling now, but I'm guessing you've never actually used one, or if you have you're comparing it to a gaming laptop that cost at least twice as much
No, I just daily-drive a OneNetbook 4. Steam Deck is wider than that. Or a GPD Win Max. Or anything reasonably-sized, really.
Both Aya Neo and Lenovo have handhelds bigger than the Deck. I don’t know about the size of the ROG Ally, but I do know that both of GPD’s handhelds are smaller than the Deck.
You're right. I forgot not all Ayas are cute pocketable OLED 5.5-inchers.
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.