With the OLED after arriving, and the LCD reduced in price I’m considering getting the 64gb deck with a micro SD for additional storage as a gift for someone. I absolutely cannot afford the OLED devices as much as I would like to.
I suppose my question is, do you think it’s worth paying the money for the LCD or should I wait until I can afford the OLED?
It’s not for me and I’m not super knowledgeable about specs etc so any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks :)
I have the 64Gb LCD version and fitted a 512Gb SSD. Never regretted it and have no real desire to upgrade. It’s still a great handheld to play on.
Same. My friend upgraded his deck from 512gb to 1tb, and gave me his old 512gb drive to upgrade mine from the 64gb.
I will say though, the larger screen size is very tempting.
Oh may I ask what SSD you bought? I think I might go that route!
I bought this one from ebay (UK) in March. The price has gone down slightly since. I haven’t had any issues with it at all since installation:
Bought one a few weeks back, had no idea an OLED version was coming out, lol. It’s really living up to what I expected. IMO, totally worth the price. The OLED ones are better in some ways, but you’ve gotta wait. I guess it all comes down to how long you can wait and how eager you are to buy.
With the overflow of used Steam Decks flooded the secondary market you could potentially get a 512gb version for around $300 if you put in the effort. Lots of people are trying to recoup some of the cash needed to get the OLED and there might even be like new models out there for sale.
Look into it you never know what’s out there. I’m even selling my 512gb Deck in like new condition with a stormtrooper dbrand skin with case and charger as well as soon as my OLED LE arrives on Friday.
Good luck 🍀
No, save up and get the OLED, the difference in quality thanks to all the upgrades is MASSIVE, and absolutely worth it
It’s not massive, not at all omg. Troll. Absolutely not worth 200 euro more. Idk why you idjts trying to justify that. Stop it
You are literally coping, it’s literally the best mid-gen refresh a console has ever had.
Idk about that, do you not count ps4 pro and one X refresh models?
The 250gb lcd is only $50 more. But if the person you are buying this for is somewhat tech savvy they can replace the ssd later on and I would get the 64gb and add a sd card as a gift.
Sorry if this is a stupid question but would the 250gb storage be better because it’s on an SSD rather than on the micro SD? I’m not tech savvy but the person I’m hoping to gift is, so if it does make a difference the extra 60EUR(I’m in EU so slightly more expensive unfortunately) might be worth it!
Technically it is different. SSDs are better. BUT in practice, the performance is mostly the same, the biggest difference is in few more seconds of load times. Negligible. If your top consideration is price, then just go with a 64gb one and a sdcard. It is fine.
If the person you are gifting this to is tech savvy, then 64 GB is even better option because they can pretty trivially upgrade the SSD on their own time. By far, the best bang for your buck option is buying the 64gb and upgrading the SSD. If the person you are gifting this to has ever built a PC for themselves or opened a phone or did any other small electronics repair, then they’ll be capable of upgrading the Steam Deck by themselves.
If you can spring the extra for the 256 version, especially if the gift recipient is not tech savvy, it is worth it to do so.
Additionally, look at the refurbished units from Valve. They’re used, but come with warranty and are very much like new. Very good option if you’re on a budget.
Also, don’t ignore the direct used market. With the new OLED version, a lot of people are dumping their ‘old’ Decks, there are some nice deals to be had.
I would say you miss one important point : for game. Yes. But for the write speed, it’s the worst. So when you download a game directly on a sd card it’s so fucking slow if you have a decent network connectivity (like 2gb/s) because the write speed is limited.
In game, no difference, but the writing speed is a no go for « only » sd card deck
Yeah, that’s true, I experience this since I have 1 Gbps down and 600 Mbps over WiFi.
However, for most people this doesn’t matter because they don’t have an internet pipe big enough that can saturate their sdcard write speed.
The only time this really matters is if you’re moving a game from SSD to sdcard. Then it’s just pain.
Well the limite of the steam deck writing on a SD Card is 100 MB/s so it’s pretty limited depending of the internet bandwidth. I more between 250-300 when I download on steam
Yeah loading times would be better running from the SSD than a micro SD. Since the person you are buying it for is tech savvy they can buy a 1tb SSD or more and just replace the 64gb SSD when they want to in the future. 256gb is good for someone who isn’t really going to replace the SSD because it’s a decent size and you can always use a SD if you want download more games.
If you want to, you can get the cheaper one and then throw in a 1tb ssd, its real easy to do, but if this was for you my question would be do you need it right now? If yes, then go for the lcd, if not, then its well worth waiting for the oled. Everything thats good about the lcd just gets better with the oled, down to even repairability
It is by far the best PC you can buy in terms of value for money, especially since the price drop. You can’t get anything else thar’s anywhere close to the Deck’s capabilities for that price.