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[–] highenergyphysics@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like this is a bit of a reach, as the point of the low resolution screen was to maximize performance while maintaining acceptable pixel density for the size. A 50% hit is nothing to sneeze at!

However I’m glad it works and more power to the modders and Valve for making such an accessible system. This thing has rekindled gaming for me and I’m looking forward to picking up the SD2 in a few years.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can still target lower resolutions and scale up very efficiently

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd just get an oled instead of this

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but someone did point out that it gives you an option to get a better screen and still come in $100 under the price of the lowest OLED model.

That said, yeah, I generally want to upset the tuned ecosystem of the Steam Deck hardware. Everything is tuned very tightly to those exact specifications, so I prefer keeping things default there.

[–] Poopfeast420@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

But you still need an SSD to match the cheapest OLED model, not to mention all the other small improvements (and not so small) you're missing out on.

So, unless you just want to tinker, in my opinion this doesn't make sense anymore, since the OLED was released. Unlucky timing from the company that made / sells this screen.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

This, but with an OLED screen instead of higher resolution.

I wish there was a version of this for Nintendo 3ds XLs