Purchased old version of the Steam Deck right before OLED announcement

[Fakk]

I purchased a steam deck and I haven’t even had it a month. Steam announces the release of the OLED version after my purchase. Now they will not let me return the deck for the upgrade that I would have certainly waited and paid the extra money for. Now I’m stuck with a device I was happy with until now. Not even to mention the huge drop in price. Either way I feel pretty rooked in this situation. There’s zero chance I will purchase the OLED deck with a brand new older version. I’m sure there’s many more that have purchase the older version very recently that feels the same way. Not impressed at all.


As this is a suggestion forum. Maybe let people know more in advance when you’re releasing expensive product upgrades. Every other company does. But I guess you had to get ride of the old decks somehow.

[Pscht]

You were ok with what you got at the time of sale.

I bought a computer last year, including an RTX 3070. I'm not complaining that I could have bought a 4XXX card just months later.

[nullable]

Some people ain't gonna be happy unless they buy a product on launch day...

I mean if it's that much of a fuss, sell your old Steam deck and buy the new one. Because it seems like the story you're telling yourself is you'd have no problem waiting weeks or months for that OLED screen in hindsight. Nothing is stopping you from going without a Steam deck for a bit now to get what you really want...

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your biggest mistake was buying it because well now that you have it you seem very disappointed, typically when the hardwares very good users are happy with it regardless of its date of creation, so what is wrong with steam deck in your views.

why is the original steam deck so much less desirable then the new OLED version. there is a slim chance that the new OLED version of steam deck is actually inferior to the older version.

you might say how is that possible? simply because they are now cutting corners to reduce weight and try to balance the power and the heat, where as your original steam deck just needs a fan to help it stay cool, having some what interest in the design of the steam deck, some things you could do yourself to make your original steam deck more adaptable.

but in my honest opinion there is nothing wrong with the original steam deck that some tweaks to the position of the wifi antenna and adding a aggressive heat sink or fan couldn't fix, for the price difference its well worth getting that original steam deck because we just don't have any clue what corners they cut on the new OLED version when they revised it.