Hardware

US and Canada only. Fuck that.

Precisely what the Deck needs. Especially since they officially want to keep the performance at this level for a couple of years. 800p is probably a good call still, but the low SRGB LCD needed an upgrade.

I'm glad storage went up. Not much of a reason to keep low storage SKUs around when NAND is super cheap and games are huge.

Now, if they would just begin speculating on that Steam Controller 2...

Page also claims faster downloads, what’s that? Just over the base model with the slower storage?

The upgrade the deck Needs the most, I love my deck it's perfect for gaming while around family as opposed to locked up In my room. But the terrible screen really takes away from the game.

I played all the way through chained echos on my deck and noticed that some characters refer to the protagonist red hair, I found that strange because to my eyes the hair was a bright orange, I chalked it up to localization until I watched a video of the game on monitor that I noticed all the colors where off.

It's genuinely disheartening knowing such a fundamental element is compromised, but hey corners need to be cut and I am still happy with my purchase.

This Steam deck has two major issues, 1. It downloads every single code-library for every single game. Meaning, if multiple games in your deck use the same library, that one library is downloaded and stored multiple times wasting valuable storage space. 2. Most of the games yet don't support Valve's Steam deck and Linux all together.

I'm a Linux user.

They just addressed most of my issues with the deck with this revision. As an OLED TV monitor user, The 60hz LCD was the primary thing that was genuinely annoying. I'm looking forwards to buying this thing as a dedicated soulsborne & hollow knight machine.
The plastic screw posts were an issue, I actually broke one of the posts on my own deck. And the storage options no longer feel like a rip-off! ( YAY! )
My other nitpicks of the hardware were the stiff buttons ( prefer microswtiches ideally but compliant levers on metal domes are also cool ).

And just in time for the holidays as well. I would imagine that these are going to sell like toilet paper in a pandemic. Go Valve.

6400 MTs is wild, that’s faster than basically every AMD and like 98% of Intel users.

this oled deck shits on oled switch SO hard

I suspect that limited edition one is gonna be pure unobtanium

Twice the ram and same storage capacity as the $1600 base MacBook Pro.

And I just put on a bid on an used one on eBay... Here's hoping that someone outbids me.

That new Wifi chip also supports dual-band simultaneous (DBS), as far as I understand. They already use this on Windows with other DBS chips like Intel AX411 or Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 and their Steam Networking API to achieve lower latency in their popular multiplayer games. I wonder if they will do this on SteamOS too, also potentially for simultaneous downloads over both bands. Also comes with a dedicated Bluetooth antenna.

Also I wonder if they upgraded the SD card slot to support DDR200, was that benchmarked in any review?

How lame. Slightly upgraded memory specs and efficiency but it's essentially as weak as the old one. One would imagine they'd make it at the very least 30% more powerful after such a long time.

Where's the next Index?

Does this come with a custom color job? Those orange accents are some hot shit, I just might spring for one

New APU or revised ? Interesting to see more on this

Its more than just OLED too. People are probably going to be pissed that this came out of the blue if they recently bought a Steam Deck.

Thank u Volvo. I would say 1080p especially at 7.4" would have also been welcome, but I don't think both 1080p and 90 Hz would have been practical even with efficiency improvements and a bigger battery. The deck needed a better screen for damn sure, and I'm glad it's here.

They practically said they were interested in doing this during interviews. This doesn't come as a surprise at all.

Wowwwwwww that’s insane. Really nice. Won’t upgrade, but would buy this one if I didn’t have one already. Great Valve 👍🏽

makes me tempted. very nice upgrades across the board

Nice little upgrade. I would cancel if I had a pending order, but if you have an original Deck I don't think it's worth upgrading by itself.

Managing a battery life INCREASE with the switch to OLED is quite an impressive achievement. Though it's a real dick move to release an upgrade without announcing it in advance.

Fuuuuck now I want one !

I really really hope those stick caps are backwards compatible with the original deck, because the slippery-ass thumbsticks are my biggest issue with my steam deck.

I hope I can just toss my current 2tb ssd into this after updating steamos. Would make it easier to swap to it.

Im just glad Asus and Lenovo needs to add OLED on their machines aswell

Since I already have one and it does everything I need I can't justify this

But damn those prices are attractive, the cheapest one getting a viable storage size now is great idea. Now the budget one isn't a kneecapped version of the sane one, it's now a natural upsell to the OLED but can stand on its own two feet.

does anybody know the make of the wifi chip?

Goddamn this has higher nits than my lg c1

Seems expensive for a hand held. Can these serve as consoles and hook up to a TV?

I want one lol

I may get this. Can you play most games on this?

Seems pretty darn good. May still go Legion Go though since I'm just as interested in using it docked and that has AV1 encode