I received my steam deck OLED in the mail last week. I haven’t touched my PC since. No Plans to anytime soon, I’m just having way too much of a good time laying back and playing with the Deck. Worth every cent to me.
Edit: My wife is also happy, as now she gets more PS5 playtime, and I’m in the same room with her on the couch instead of being hid away in the office.
I totally does. I was probably grinning the whole time I first played it portably
Mass Effect Legendary, and I’m playing it in the deck. Not buying anything else, as I spent it on the Steam Deck.
Shenmue. Walk around 80’s Japan and talk to people.
It really is awesome. Got my OLED 512 a few days ago, I haven’t been able to put it down. I guess my expectations were low, I was expecting to be dropping settings and playing everything around 30-40FPS. I was so wrong!
The amount of work Valve has done with Linux alone is astounding. SO MANY of my older games that were broken or unplayable on Windows work perfectly with a single click now. I’ve never seen such ease of compatibility in a Linux build.
It’s also the perfect system for enjoying games that were locked in 30FPS-land, such as Shenmue or LA Noire. No more screwing with refresh and sync setting between game engine and graphics cards to get a smooth/proper 30FPS experience - they work out of the box on this thing with no hassle and the 90hz screen handles 30FPS motion/panning amazingly.
I haven’t tackled games like RDR2, but all the stuff I have played hasn’t had any issue getting 60+ FPS while maintaining a decent image quality.
I got more than my moneys worth out of this thing, going in worrying I was going to regret it and wish I’d waited for the next model. No way, I love this thing!
512 and no dead pixels- but I’m not looking too hard. I decided to just enjoy it and see if I notice any. So far, nothing
Return it if it bothers you. On a large OLED screen, it happens… - but on a low-res screen this size, I’d send it back.
I almost ordered a deck, and decided to wait. The OLED got announced the next day. Ordered a 512GB OLED, now I’m waiting
Exactly why I bought one. Especially considering how many of my older titles that are now broken in windows have become so easy to get running great on Steam Deck!
I could have bought a new GPU instead, 2 weeks in and I’m really glad I made the choice I did.