To add to this, I played Starfield on my desktop at 4K60fps mostly stable framerates aside a couple stutters on new atlantis and aquila city.

Mostly the game is average (6/10 imo) and doesn’t to anything better than other bethesda games from the last 10 years or so, but with the caveat that there’s barely any mods that do much yet (creator kit for starfield is not out yet), so you won’t see much aside some UI, texture and clothes changes, and don’t get me wrong, there’s a bunch of UI issues that are terrible on the base game, but overall the game experience doesn’t change.

Honestly the only thing I felt refreshing from starfield compared to other bethesda games are ship related activities, but the main problem with that is that it’s super limited in scope, which is unsurprising considering it’s the first time they’ve done ships, but aside that, quests, story, NPCs, etc, are pretty much just a shuffle from their other games, so if you want another new bethesda game that is similar to old ones, starfield will be ok, if you want a next gen game from bethesda, this aint it.

Once creator kit for it is available (looks like somewhen 2024) and modders begin pumping out shit this will probably change a lot and the game will become way more popular, but I wouldn’t spend much effort tweaking my steamdeck for it, there’s a lot of better games out there honestly.

I’ve been a pc gamer for about 20 years now, and there weren’t good affordable handheld solutions for both emulation of all kind plus couch gaming that allowed me to olay outside my home. 2h commutes to work changes you…

I guess that the increased cost was not directly due to the storage, but also changes in production lines which add a fair amount of cost when you are setting up production for something for the first time.

That said I wish I went with the 64gb one at first since I ended up going for the sd card storage solution :/

I’m not too active on this sub (I mostly lurk) but this is what I remember from each of those points.

1. Never been a mainstream thing in the sub, and when someone brought it up it got dogpiled on.
2. OLED burn in is a thing, but it was never a big topic here besides threads like “can I replace the deck screen by an OLED” or something like that. The convo about OLEDs being bad because of burn in wasn’t common. And whenever people complained about color, people tend to recommend the color/brightness on decky (can’t remember name right now). What has always been kinda often a topic of arguments was the regular vs etched glass vs screen protector messing up colors, but that’s another issue.
3. Yes and no, it’s true that the deck cannot hold refresh rates higher than 60 for modern 3D games such as cyberpunk, elden ring, switch games on emulation, etc, and if anything often you will see people recommending capping the refresh rate at 30 or 40 for stability. But at the same time for older quick paced games (be it old shooters like CSGO), 2D games like hollow knight, super meat boy, etc, having the choice to go above 60FPS would be welcome.

Regarding my take on the SD oled, it’s fine, I wont buy a new SD because the LCD one is fine, I never bothered modding the SD because for me it’s fine as it is (256GB model, using an sd card), and won’t mod it unless something comes out that is a gamechanger for me, specially becasue swapping some parts is a hassle, but for the people who want it, go for it.

It’s not just this sub only, it’s a pretty widespread issue, microtransactions, sales, fomo, etc. For whatever reason people cannot wait to spend their money on whatever thing they see to some degree, and half of the people that complain about it, buy the things they complain about when nobody is looking at them.

It’s just consumerism on a nutshell.

While windows can run properly on SD, why it’s not recommended, is because windows has a lot more performance overhead than steamOS, meaning that windows consumes more resources than steamOS.

This means that if a game would run at 30FPS on steamOS, you would get lower FPS on windows (maybe something between 25-28FPS, not sure), but that doesn’t mean windows just won’t work or works “bad”, it all depends on where you standards for performance are.