Just when the competition in the handheld space was ramping up, Valve comes back to dunk on them again.
It's pretty awesome that they also cut the price on the old model. The $400 LCD version now comes with a 256gb NVME SSD rather than the slow eMMC it came with.
Would there be any reason for anyone, like myself, who doesn’t already own a steam deck to not get an OLED model? I’m definitely interested.
This is alll I ever wanted from steam deck. Time to put my money where my mouth is
Man, and I only just got mine... And considering the insides are all changed, I doubt I can simply upgrade my current one by switching out the screen and battery.
Kind of salty that my deck is only a few months old and I totally would've waited for this.
Is the wifi chip upgraded?
#1 seller for me is the fact that the bumpers are better replaceable cause they're attached to the joystick board not the button board. That was the ibiggest pain for me cause when they stopped working on my first deck I had to send it in, and they gave me a new one wiping out all the software customizing I had done. I can feel the bumper going on my current deck a few months ago, it only works if you press it a certain way and one small jostle could make it stop entirely again and I'll need to RMA AGAIN.
OLED is a really nice upgade, especially given the original screen being not so great.
Still not sure if it's something I can afford anytime soon, but would be a pretty nice device to have around for sure.
Let me guess, only available for North Americans and maybe East Asia as usual. Fuck the rest of the planet, am I right?
It is written that the APU on the OLED model is 6nm and on the old one is 7nm but all performance numbers are the same including power consumption, am I missing anything?
Wow another insane update from valve!
I want this so much… maybe next year.
With a display almost as good as 2011 phones.
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