Often equivalent, never worse.
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► Samsung T7 Drive - https://howl.me/ch3ZAH6Ih3z
► Anker 45W Charging Brick: https://howl.me/chEwRKH7F9V
► SteelSeries Arctis 3 Headset: https://howl.me/chEwSYY7xcc
😎 Cool Accessories 😎
► Razer Huntsman Keyboard: https://howl.me/chEwTZztIKx
► Anker PowerCore Battery Bank: https://howl.me/chEwVcSDyEt
► Anker USB C Hub: https://howl.me/chEwVKxRTcj
🎵 Where I get my music 🎵
https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/6wuxc5/
MY GEAR:
► Camera Body: https://howl.me/chEwY8ZjaYs
► Favorite Lens: https://howl.me/chEwZINc8iF
► Video Light: https://amzn.to/3kBPtuR
► Microphone: https://amzn.to/3rWLvAS
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New Deck:
Good things often come to gamers who wait. There’s always a slimmer, more power-efficient PlayStation or Xbox on the way. Nintendo has long hammered out attractive new combos of size, screen, color, and battery life for its Game Boy, DS, and Switch.
But Valve, with the new Steam Deck OLED, may have created the best console revision ever.
It fixes my biggest complaints about Valve’s original handheld gaming PC and then some, without any new catch. Starting at $549 for 512GB of storage, it only costs $20 more than last year’s model with half that capacity — or you can pay the same $649 as last year’s 512GB to get 1TB now.
Related
Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED: all the specs
But don’t let the name fool you: unlike Nintendo’s Switch OLED, the new Steam Deck isn’t just a new screen and extra storage. It’s a new battery, new chip, new cooling, a new 90Hz refresh rate, and well over a dozen other substantive changes. Almost all make the Steam Deck OLED hands-down better than the original. It’s so much better, I wouldn’t buy an original Steam Deck anymore.
Here is a sentence lifted word for word from my test notes that might give you some idea: “Cyberpunk is running faster, more stable, cooler, quieter, while drawing less power from a larger battery and looking brighter and clearer and better.”
That’s what I want for all of my games, and that’s what I want for you. Just know that when I wrote “faster,” I only meant an extra four frames per second.
8
Verge Score
Valve Steam Deck OLED
THE GOOD
Infinitely customizable controls make decades of games playable
Easily lets you balance performance and battery drain
Fantastic screen that gets bright and dim
Longer battery life
Quiet fan
Louder speakers
Slightly better ergonomics
Competitive pricing
THE BAD
The newest triple-A PC games are leaving the Steam Deck behind
HDR limited to HDR games, and there aren’t many of those
Still not a stable platform for the “it should just work” crowd
Valve is still figuring out refresh rate
How we rate and review products
That’s right: the Steam Deck OLED is not a next-gen “Steam Deck Pro” or a “Steam Deck 2,” and it’s by design. In September, Valve told The Verge it wouldn’t make the Steam Deck faster anytime soon, despite the fact that rival handhelds with faster processors can now get far more playable results in demanding games like Starfield and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
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Shop my Store!
https://shop.howl.me/deckready
____________________
Steam Deck Gift Card: https://howl.me/chEwINxUAMk
🚨 MUST HAVES 🚨
► Samsung T7 Drive - https://howl.me/ch3ZAH6Ih3z
► Anker 45W Charging Brick: https://howl.me/chEwRKH7F9V
► SteelSeries Arctis 3 Headset: https://howl.me/chEwSYY7xcc
😎 Cool Accessories 😎
► Razer Huntsman Keyboard: https://howl.me/chEwTZztIKx
► Anker PowerCore Battery Bank: https://howl.me/chEwVcSDyEt
► Anker USB C Hub: https://howl.me/chEwVKxRTcj
🎵 Where I get my music 🎵
https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/6wuxc5/
MY GEAR:
► Camera Body: https://howl.me/chEwY8ZjaYs
► Favorite Lens: https://howl.me/chEwZINc8iF
► Video Light: https://amzn.to/3kBPtuR
► Microphone: https://amzn.to/3rWLvAS
FOLLOW ME:
► https://twitter.com/staydeckready
► https://instagram.com/staydeckready
► https://tiktok.com/@staydeckready
My Other Channel: https://youtube.com/psready
____________________
New Deck:
Good things often come to gamers who wait. There’s always a slimmer, more power-efficient PlayStation or Xbox on the way. Nintendo has long hammered out attractive new combos of size, screen, color, and battery life for its Game Boy, DS, and Switch.
But Valve, with the new Steam Deck OLED, may have created the best console revision ever.
It fixes my biggest complaints about Valve’s original handheld gaming PC and then some, without any new catch. Starting at $549 for 512GB of storage, it only costs $20 more than last year’s model with half that capacity — or you can pay the same $649 as last year’s 512GB to get 1TB now.
Related
Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED: all the specs
But don’t let the name fool you: unlike Nintendo’s Switch OLED, the new Steam Deck isn’t just a new screen and extra storage. It’s a new battery, new chip, new cooling, a new 90Hz refresh rate, and well over a dozen other substantive changes. Almost all make the Steam Deck OLED hands-down better than the original. It’s so much better, I wouldn’t buy an original Steam Deck anymore.
Here is a sentence lifted word for word from my test notes that might give you some idea: “Cyberpunk is running faster, more stable, cooler, quieter, while drawing less power from a larger battery and looking brighter and clearer and better.”
That’s what I want for all of my games, and that’s what I want for you. Just know that when I wrote “faster,” I only meant an extra four frames per second.
8
Verge Score
Valve Steam Deck OLED
THE GOOD
Infinitely customizable controls make decades of games playable
Easily lets you balance performance and battery drain
Fantastic screen that gets bright and dim
Longer battery life
Quiet fan
Louder speakers
Slightly better ergonomics
Competitive pricing
THE BAD
The newest triple-A PC games are leaving the Steam Deck behind
HDR limited to HDR games, and there aren’t many of those
Still not a stable platform for the “it should just work” crowd
Valve is still figuring out refresh rate
How we rate and review products
That’s right: the Steam Deck OLED is not a next-gen “Steam Deck Pro” or a “Steam Deck 2,” and it’s by design. In September, Valve told The Verge it wouldn’t make the Steam Deck faster anytime soon, despite the fact that rival handhelds with faster processors can now get far more playable results in demanding games like Starfield and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
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