Maybe it’s not worth it to them and I can understand that. Maybe they just spent too much money on things like a new SSD, shell swap, fan upgrades, a DeckHD screen, and Hall Effect sticks and are a little salty about it. Maybe they are just genuinely more than happy with their current SD and that’s great too. But all these posts about people saying the new SD isn’t that big of a change and that’s it’s not worth it seem like people just trying to soothe their own crushed spirits.
Valve updated nearly every inch of this device and it’s objectively better than the original in almost every single way. The lengthy list of improvements is seriously impressive, even down to the longer length power cord, and they kept it at the exact same price to boot. The OLED SD has more refreshes than a new iPhone series and I can’t wrap my head around how anyone can think it’s not a significant upgrade.
A new iPhone generally adds a new feature or something similar, the OLED Deck doesn’t. The new screen is obviously an upgrade, but the performance boost at best maybe let’s you turn up one setting, and everything else is really just a QoL upgrade. Not having VRR is a bit of a disappointment personally.
If you don’t have one then it’s obviously the one to go for, but it’s really not hard to see why it’s not necessarily a must-have for folks already with one.