Ok while I 100 percent agree the OLED version is way better I think people should not be comparing them.
First off the OLED has a much better screen and battery life with a few other minor benefits. However when compared to the 64 GB model which cost $430 new now to the 512 OLED model which cost $690 it is a difference of $260 or roughly 60 percent more. Add on $30 for a 500gb SD card and it’s now a $230 different or 53 percent more.
I personally think a lot of people including myself don’t see it worth the price difference. While a nice screen and battery life is nicer I find myself never playing over 2 hours straight undocked and have not come close to running out of battery so an increase means no difference. Plus at the end of the day the games are really what matter and both have the same performance.
In addition if you live in an area with higher sales taxes like NS at 15 percent it makes the price difference even more vast.
I got a 64GB model for $450 and don’t regret the purchase. Also you may find some really good deals now on non OLED decks.
Note: All prices are in Canadian dollars and not American. Now duke it out in the comments.
To be honest I got my steam deck about few month ago just to play some game that I don’t normally wanted to play on pc (rpg games like dragon quest or persona 5), it just shocked me that they chose to upgrade the screen / battery/ fan but not the actual spec of the device, for all these it only worth for those who haven’t got a deck yet, for those who already got a deck if they going to get this one it the exact same thing but the screen (biggest change)
The new deck start with 550$ and the old lcd deck is on sale 64 gb 350$ / 512gb 450 it gonna be gone soon and they only will keep selling the lcd 256gb deck, get the 64gb right now if you don’t care about the Oled screen, get the oled one if you don’t care about your wallet and they probably gonna release an full upgraded steam deck 2 in another 1-2 year
I just played Dead Space Remake and it was definitely NOT enjoyable but in the good way
An spec upgrade right now would be costly and it wouldn’t be that big of an upgrade (I would say 30% vs Steam Deck LCD) and yeah, some games would be now playable like Returnal and others would be able to be played without that much FSR but then developers will have harder to optimize and in general put back developers to bother in doing so and people in buying due that
4-5 years between Steam Deck 1 vs 2 seems reasonable for me