Just bought my Deck this year and with Valve not offering any sort of trade-in program or self-upgrade kits at the moment, I figure a lot of owners are also asking themselves the same thing. I know that the Steam Deck 2 will eventually come at some point and my current one works perfectly fine, but the OLED screen, wifi chip, and better battery are REALLY enticing to me. Battery life especially because that is one of my biggest hangups with the first generation models.

Anyone else on the fence too?

  • MEchoPark@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Casual gamer here. As a 1st gen 512 GB owner since summer this year, I decided against the upgrade at least for now. It would be a hassle to get a good deal for the 1st gen Deck. Plus, it’s a nice opportunity to practice self-control. We own these devices and they don’t own us. I’ve always cringed at people running and getting all panicky to get latest the smartphone and I don’t wanna to do the same thing now.

    My reasons are all very subjective as you can see, but I don’t feel I own the Deck long enough to suddenly decide it has enough flaws to justify getting the OLED right away.

    I also understand people who are upgrading. Especially if you have the convenience of gifting/selling the old Deck to a family member or something. Under those circumstances I would upgrade too!