I didn’t even realize it was a transparent shell until a few hours after I placed the order and then was reading a Kotaku (or some other such site, I don’t recall) article about what a shit show the website was on release, and it specifically mentioned the transparent shell.

I don’t know how I didn’t see that at all beforehand, but I’m stocked about it, cause I was in the same place, I wanted to do a jsaux shell swap but was too nervous about fucking it up lol

I actually wasn’t going to upgrade, I saw a bunch of posts about the OLED screen on here and that didn’t really matter that much to me. But yesterday I actually took a second to look at the steam website and see the specs for the new one. I bought the highest specced deck last year, and so comparing that to the new OLED one, I’ll get twice the memory (I already have too many microSD cards for it), a bigger battery (I almost exclusively play on battery), better wifi (which has been the biggest pain in the ass for me, I have almost gigabit wifi but I’m lucky to ever see speeds exceeding 100mbps), and then the OLED screen is just icing at that point.

I also damaged and need to replace both bumpers on my current steam deck, so I like the idea of just upgrading and then being able to fix this one and not worry if it takes me a couple of days or longer to get it done between work and life, and then sell it or maybe give it to a friend or family member for the upcoming holidays.

Plus, I’ve put at least like 800 hours on this deck since I got it, fuck after the next couple Netflix price hikes I’ll probably spend more per hour on Netflix than I did per hour for the deck (as someone who plays a lot more deck than watches Netflix, but still).