Steam Deck OLED Limited Edition

[Nearyn]

Hi! Really a bummer that there is only a limited quantity of this extremely nice looking variant. My question is, is there any chance that maybe some can be purchased in Europe? Because the way it seems at the moment, not? Here in Scandinavia it says "not available in your region".
Cool thing about the upgrade by the way.

[tyl0413]

Yeah sadly not it seems like.

[MROOD]

you can buy it, thru ebay at scalped prices.

[Waldherz]

There are not a lot of reasons to spend that much money on the Steam Deck.
Its uses the SAME APU (new process, no changes in terms of power draw and performance) as the old one. The only thing that they improved is the RAM.

You can get a LOT more performance with an OLED display for the same money from other manufacturers.

This is certainly a device for hardcore Steam Deck Fan(boys).

[MJ711]

Originally posted by Waldherz彡:

There are not a lot of reasons to spend that much money on the Steam Deck.
Its uses the SAME APU (new process, no changes in terms of power draw and performance) as the old one. The only thing that they improved is the RAM.

You can get a LOT more performance with an OLED display for the same money from other manufacturers.

This is certainly a device for hardcore Steam Deck Fan(boys).

Do not spread misinformation. You are so wrong on many points:
https://youtu.be/Z1KLj06fn2s

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Waldherz彡:

There are not a lot of reasons to spend that much money on the Steam Deck.
Its uses the SAME APU (new process, no changes in terms of power draw and performance) as the old one. The only thing that they improved is the RAM.

You can get a LOT more performance with an OLED display for the same money from other manufacturers.

This is certainly a device for hardcore Steam Deck Fan(boys).

The APU on the OLED model is now 6nm instead of 7nm, which means it's more efficient. This, coupled with a 25% larger battery means considerable more battery life plus less fan noise and lower heat production.

You're at least right in that other devices like the ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion technically offer more performance when pushed, however they achieve this increase performance in a kind of brute-forced way by just throwing more wattage at the problem. Yes, you can get more FPS, but your battery life is going to be something like 40 minutes worst case scenario. Maybe 50 minutes to an hour thanks to the Legion's slightly bigger battery.

Valve could have gone the brute-force route, but they understand that this is a portable device, and they very intentionally and carefully balance performance, with battery life, focusing on efficiency. This shows when running the Deck at lower wattages, where the Deck actually performs better at lower TDP than the Z1 extreme powered devices.

What else, full HDR 2.0 support, bigger display, more responsive touchscreen, better haptics, improved thumb sticks and bumper buttons, improved audio (The Deck already had best in class audio, and they've made it even better.), Wi-Fi 6E support, and wake on Bluetooth.

Mark my words, we will see an even higher performance Steam deck in the future, but Valve isn't going to rush some rushed engineering, brute-forced system out the door like the competition does. Only when they can get a significant enough performance bump while still keeping things cool and efficient will we see a Steam Deck 2.0.

[Nearyn]

Originally posted by Waldherz彡:

There are not a lot of reasons to spend that much money on the Steam Deck.
You can get a LOT more performance with an OLED display for the same money from other manufacturers.

I do understand where you are coming from. But honestly it has nothing to do with "fan(boys)". There are many different videos about these different hand-held consoles and I drew the conclusion that the Steam-Deck is the best choice (even with slightly lesser stats overall) between them, for me. My reasoning is the Windows incompatibility (as for now) compared to Valves own implementation. Then there is the fact that most games I own (and many others) are primarily on Steam.
I guess the resolution and 7-8 inches (too small) are the only things I can critique, but to me its an optimal choice, if I go with one.
Perhaps I will wait for an other day, to see what they and the competition come up with for the second round in a few years, but to me it is clearly superior on this day. Also I do not think the price is unreasonable, you get a working computer with display that does what it is supposed to, plays my games when travelling.
Thanks for reading:)

[Кубос]

I can image the ebay killing few scalpers will make. Great job!

[deaddoof]

Originally posted by Kubos:

I can image the ebay killing few scalpers will make. Great job!

I was thinking about it. Would they try again with oled deck?

Either way, deck2 is pretty predictable relative release date. Watch when Apple will release a lpddr6 device. Valve will release deck 2 with a few month of it.