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  • The difference in display quality between the LCD Deck and the OLED deck is far larger than between the ROG Ally LCD and OLED deck. The old LCD on the Deck really was not a good panel and it had poor color accuracy and a low gamut making games look dull. The Ally has a high refresh rate 120hz panel with pretty good response times and better contrast than the original LCD deck. Sure it’s no OLED but the gap isn’t as large between them.

    Now which you should get is really subjective. Both have their merits and downsides. The Deck OLED has much better battery life while the Ally has access to more games and other windows based software. Deck is set up for gaming first and foremost so you launch automatically into Steam Big Picture, Ally does not and launches into Asus’s Armory crate software. Ally can however be customized to launch into whatever program you want at boot up like Steam big picture.

    Playing games via other launchers is much easier on Ally so if you own games from Ubisoft, EA, Epic, or other stores, you’ll have an easier time. Sometimes updates to these launchers will break games in Steam OS and it sucks.

    Multiplayer games, or games with Anti cheat all just work on Ally while on Steam deck it can be a hit or miss whether it works. Some games just won’t launch on steamOS either, however thankfully we do have tools to help with this. ProtonDB is an excellent community run site that tells you whether a game works or not. You can pretty much ignore Steam’s playability rating as whether a game is “Great on Deck” or “Unsupported” really means nothing as many “unsupported” games work fine.


  • Crest_Of_Hylia@alien.topBtoSteam Deck30FPS is not good
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    1 year ago

    Once the 3D era hit 30fps became common. Heck even the PS1 and N64 has its fair share of 20fps games as well. I’d say the current generation and the 6th generation have the highest percentage of 60fps 3D games. 5th, 7th, and 8th generation have a ton of 30fps games


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    1 year ago

    It’s a handheld PC, it’s focused on efficiency not pure power. If you want pure power get a gaming laptop or desktop PC. I don’t care if this is PC gaming, everyone still has different standards. You are expecting way too much power in a portable system










  • Really depends on how you want to play your games. PS5 is going to make games look much prettier than on the Deck. Deck is actually portable though.

    Performance wise the Steam deck cannot even come close to the PS5. The PS5’s GPU is around RTX 2070 Super/ AMD RX 6650 levels of performance while the Steam deck is closer to a GTX 1050. When playing on the big screen PS5 is the clear winner. PS5 is also simpler to use as it’s an actual console so no trouble shooting or having games that won’t work.

    Steam deck however with the batter means you can easily take it anywhere regardless of internet or place. Has access to a bigger library thanks to steam’s 20 years worth of games on the PC side

    So it’s really how do you want to play. On the TV or in your hands with a handheld.