I’m gonna get downvoted to oblivion for this…
I just got my new OLED and weirdly enough, upon booting it I saw something that I didn’t even think of till now. With the new OLED, the sub-pixel arrangement is slightly different than the LCD, and it’s causing white edge (specially on text) to have this green/magenta fringing. It’s extremely faint, and it’s not particular to the Steam Deck since I know of other OLED panels that have the same fringing. However I have heard zero mention of this and I have to say that although this matters close to nothing while playing videogames, it’s something I do see with subtitles.
With this out of the way, the screen looks amazing and I’m more than ready to sell and replace my LCD deck now. I hope the technology gets there where this isn’t an issue anymore!
Yep, this is why I will be skipping the steam deck OLED and buying an OLED monitor for my original steam deck instead. I use the steam desk as a mini-PC more than as a handheld, so the text fringing and burn-in risk is not something I want for a secondary desktop display. I look forward to seeing a higher-res, improved LCD screen in future revisions, hopefully with a new SOC so we can get away from 800p.
Just know that oled monitors will still have those same issues. I only know this because I’ve been thinking about getting one while they are on sale and text drinking and burn in are my 2 worries since I will use it for work and gaming.