Looking into it and realising I have no intention of upgrading to the OLED, it’s made me question what it would take for me to trade in my OG deck for an upgrade.
The big 3 for me would be Freesync, 90hz refresh rate (with VRR for lower speeds, 30, 60 and 90 would be a dream) and USB4 with eGPU support.
What about you guys?
FYI the OLED screen is 90Hz if I remember correctly.
For me, and given the fact that I don’t use the deck that much, but appreciate having it a lot when I actually need it, it would take a lot more to justify an upgrade. Right now if I sold my deck to get the OLED one I’d be losing 250€, the oled screen and added battery life are not worth that much to me.
Now when something like a Steam Deck 2 comes out, with better performance using maybe Zen5 and RDNA 4 in the APU, maybe a 1080p OLED screen as well, keeping the trackpads and controller layout, maybe some more I/O like a bottom USB-C port for docking, basically when the original deck becomes obsolete enough that it needs a replacement, that’s when I’ll be considering buying a new handheld.