Its slightly better than the normal steamdeck. I wouldn't call it a radiant new dawn lol
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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.
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.
Its really great! really good display, good battery, good customizability and freedom. It is even pretty cheap for the steam decks performance.
It's a fantastic backlog killer. Main PC for new titles, steam deck for indies and patient gamer style games.
I got over 600 game and still play the same 5. I'm just able to do it comfortably at work now.
I try to keep it to one longer game, and one shorter game at a time. Right now that's STALKER Gamma and Signalis, with Signalis on the Steam Deck.
Speaking of, Signalis is fucking amazing, fantastic horror for anyone new to the genre or fans of Silent Hill 2.
I made the mistake of getting addicted to Factorio, Oxygen Not Included, and Noita. I should have just started doing coke instead.
Fucking Factorio. Tried that shit years ago for 2 minutes and never touched it again.
Not because I didn't like it, of course. I stopped because I knew if I played any longer I'd have to drop out.
I lost over 1000 hours on it alone. Currently doing a train world with crazy high resource cost. 100 hours on this one and I just started manufacturing blue science. I'm going to get my ass fired at some point.
I played like 30m of the demo and didn't like it at all...then later made the huge mistake of giving the demo another go. Spent a couple dozen hours on just the demo. I'm afraid of getting the full game.
Yep, fucking terrifying.
One day I asked, "hmm, I wonder how Civ VI would run on the steam deck." And the answer is too fucking well. Perfect for track pad and touch. Can't stop playing it.
That's genuinely dangerous. You cant escape the 'one more turn'
I thought I could play for 30 minutes this morning while drinking my coffee and was late to work rip
I tried to warn you, lol
Steamdeck is for me everything even new ones like Armored Core, Cyberpunk etc..... and indies and even old ones like half life. Everything possible through proton.
Sure, you can play games like Cyberpunk on a Steam Deck! Absolutely true. I just prefer playing more demanding games at higher settings and framerates.
I like to stream from my pc to the deck when I'm feeling like escaping the desk.
Fair! Haven't done that yet.
If Steam's built in remote play doesn't quite meet performance needs then look into Moonlight. That software, with some help from Tailscale, lets me stream Yuzu from home to my deck at work, and I cannot perceive the input lag though I'm no snob.
Christmas is coming op, you know what to gift me
Did they fix the joystick grinding in the OLED?