Steam Deck™
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Steam Deck™ is the most powerful, full-featured gaming handheld in the world.
      • renrutal@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It seems it has the same OLED panel as the Nintendo Switch OLED, which some two-year long burning-in tests have shown it’s great.

        Normal usage should have zero issues.

  • VirtualWord2524@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Seems pretty darn good. May still go Legion Go though since I’m just as interested in using it docked and that has AV1 encode

  • Put_It_All_On_Blck@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Its more than just OLED too. People are probably going to be pissed that this came out of the blue if they recently bought a Steam Deck.

  • Comkeen@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    They practically said they were interested in doing this during interviews. This doesn’t come as a surprise at all.

    • F9-0021@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Same chip, just made on 6nm instead of 7. The chip will be smaller, run cooler, and use less power, but it won’t be faster.

      • OverlyOptimisticNerd@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        and use less power, but it won’t be faster.

        If it uses less power, and you run the APU at the same power target, you will get slightly more performance.

  • mokkat@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Precisely what the Deck needs. Especially since they officially want to keep the performance at this level for a couple of years. 800p is probably a good call still, but the low SRGB LCD needed an upgrade.

    I’m glad storage went up. Not much of a reason to keep low storage SKUs around when NAND is super cheap and games are huge.

    Now, if they would just begin speculating on that Steam Controller 2…

  • GRIZZLY_GUY_@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Page also claims faster downloads, what’s that? Just over the base model with the slower storage?

  • chronocapybara@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Nice little upgrade. I would cancel if I had a pending order, but if you have an original Deck I don’t think it’s worth upgrading by itself.

  • upbeatchief@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The upgrade the deck Needs the most, I love my deck it’s perfect for gaming while around family as opposed to locked up In my room. But the terrible screen really takes away from the game.

    I played all the way through chained echos on my deck and noticed that some characters refer to the protagonist red hair, I found that strange because to my eyes the hair was a bright orange, I chalked it up to localization until I watched a video of the game on monitor that I noticed all the colors where off.

    It’s genuinely disheartening knowing such a fundamental element is compromised, but hey corners need to be cut and I am still happy with my purchase.

  • Zexy-Mastermind@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Wowwwwwww that’s insane. Really nice. Won’t upgrade, but would buy this one if I didn’t have one already. Great Valve 👍🏽

  • joe1134206@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thank u Volvo. I would say 1080p especially at 7.4" would have also been welcome, but I don’t think both 1080p and 90 Hz would have been practical even with efficiency improvements and a bigger battery. The deck needed a better screen for damn sure, and I’m glad it’s here.

  • logically_illogical1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This Steam deck has two major issues, 1. It downloads every single code-library for every single game. Meaning, if multiple games in your deck use the same library, that one library is downloaded and stored multiple times wasting valuable storage space. 2. Most of the games yet don’t support Valve’s Steam deck and Linux all together.

    I’m a Linux user.

    • doodlebro@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It downloads every single code-library for every single game.

      How big do you think libraries are?

      Assets are the real waster.