The Steam Deck OLED brings a fantastic, vibrant screen to Valve's handheld gaming PC, but its most impressive upgrade is the much-improved battery life.
Being a day one SteamDeck holder, 18 months of solid use the thing that excites me the most is the battery increase. To be able to get 2-3 hours of solid gaming rather than around 1 will make a big difference to me. Oled is nice but gimmie more sweet battery time.
I feel the same. Just bought a steam deck as a gift for someone a couple months ago as a Christmas gift. Had I known this was coming with battery capacity, I would have upgraded mine and given my used 512. :/
This might be enough for me to feel like I can actually untether for a while. I usually just play on the couch but it’d be more comfortable to not have to be plugged in all the time
I mean, I think you’re going to be blown away by the screen if you’re snubbing it off that much. OLED @ 1000nits HDR (much, much support for HDR today in games) and 90hz is beyond exceptional compared to the current screen. Trust me true HDR is a transformative experience.
No doubt there will be plugins available like Special K and the like to plug HDR into virtually every single game (barring those online games with aggressive anti-cheat), as well.
Anyway as someone who’s used first iteration HDR monitors years ago, this is very exciting to me. This will be the first time ever that an affordable option for high nits true HDR will be in people’s hands for an affordable price, appreciation and widespread use of HDR will skyrocket after this – I am very excited, and shocked no one is talking about the new deck from this perspective.
Being a day one SteamDeck holder, 18 months of solid use the thing that excites me the most is the battery increase. To be able to get 2-3 hours of solid gaming rather than around 1 will make a big difference to me. Oled is nice but gimmie more sweet battery time.
I feel the same. Just bought a steam deck as a gift for someone a couple months ago as a Christmas gift. Had I known this was coming with battery capacity, I would have upgraded mine and given my used 512. :/
This might be enough for me to feel like I can actually untether for a while. I usually just play on the couch but it’d be more comfortable to not have to be plugged in all the time
I mean, I think you’re going to be blown away by the screen if you’re snubbing it off that much. OLED @ 1000nits HDR (much, much support for HDR today in games) and 90hz is beyond exceptional compared to the current screen. Trust me true HDR is a transformative experience.
No doubt there will be plugins available like Special K and the like to plug HDR into virtually every single game (barring those online games with aggressive anti-cheat), as well.
Anyway as someone who’s used first iteration HDR monitors years ago, this is very exciting to me. This will be the first time ever that an affordable option for high nits true HDR will be in people’s hands for an affordable price, appreciation and widespread use of HDR will skyrocket after this – I am very excited, and shocked no one is talking about the new deck from this perspective.
Battery for me, is going to be nice
100%, the screen seems amazing but that cooling and battery life improvement really makes it the hand held I’m waiting for.
Bro how are you getting 1? You shouldn’t be able to draw 40 watts from the battery in an hour.
I already get 3-3.5 hours of battery on the OG Steam Deck. Playing last gen games though. Will be 4-5 hours on the new model.
This is a great revision indeed. Everything is upgraded. Awesome work from Valve 👍