The Steam Deck OLED is better than you think (2 month review)

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What I use with my Steam deck (affiliate):

🧠 Steam Deck SD Card:

🔋 Battery bank:

📺 My 4k monitor (works great with steam deck, has usb-c and power, one cable does everything):

👾 Usb-c dongle to hook up to TV/monitor/external drive/etc:

🔍Steam Deck Screen protector:

🔌 Long charging cable (usb-c to usb-c):

⚡️ charging brick:

🎮 Controllers I use with steam deck:

📀 Internal storage m.2 nvme 2230:

🎹 Wireless keyboard (also works great with mac, can connect to mac and steam deck at the same time and switches with one button push)

🪑sit/stand desk:

[darkvulpes]

Valve undersells those features so users will do it instead of them from their own experience. They are playing 4D chess.

[drizzyd]

Valves just didn't wanna piss off all the people with LCD decks 🤣

[FullaEels]

got the oled, didnt have an lcd before, and can say ive not had an issue with the battery life. the oled screen at 40% is as bright as my laptop screen at 100%. have used it basically every day since i got it, which means ive hurt my sleep schedule, but im actually getting thru games i was putting off due to having to sit with a hot, noisy laptop.

it's also an emulation beast.

[califpv]

As soon as I started playing games on my OLED I noticed immediately that they almost all ran better than on the old deck

[TheRobertReimer]

The Steam Deck OLED is an amazing system. I bought one in December (never played the LCD version), and it's now my go-to machine. I absolutely love it!

[viki]

I love the steam deck so much I was happy to upgrade. Steam deck made me able to actually play games and discover games I never even knew about before owning the deck. Now I can play whenever without hogging the tv. When you’re married to a non gamer it is very hard to play.

[chrisdomingo]

I was on the fence on getting a Steamdeck for a while now. When the Oled came out, my decision to get one was set.
I got my Oled Steamdeck a few weeks ago, and it’s been amazing! I love how my Steam saves carried over, so I didn’t have to start over.
Screen is beautiful, I love how vibrant the colors are.

[okuma]

My SD Oled just arrived today. I'm so freaking excited to finally experience the world of handheld PC gaming.

[brandongabel]

Totally agree on all fronts. I loved my LCD Deck for the short 8 months that I had it. For perspective, I was planning on getting the LCD Deck for my girlfriend for Christmas but the OLED was announced around that time so I decided to wait to see if I could snag one first. When it came in, I wanted to test it out to make sure it worked and also wanted to install and set up game for her so she could play right out of he box. Within the first few hours, I fell in love with it and decided to sell my LCD for my own OLED to mitigate the cost of the upgrade.

It's easily the best decision I've ever made, but I still want to point out that the LCD is amazing on it's own. If I didn't have the OLED to compare it to, I would be blissfully happy with it.

[thedutchfisherman]

Bought the 1TB Oled a couple weeks ago and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this thing!! 👍👍❤️

[greedyyawgoo]

The reason why Valve doesn't want this to be overblown is because they still need to sell the old gen version of the Steam Deck.

[bilimayo]

I just bought my OLED today. Hope it gets here soon I'm so excited

[Enyel]

Considering my steam deck is the only gaming device I own, I think this would be a great upgrade considering how heavily I use it and I think for people in my shoes this would also be an upgrade.
Hell even just for the battery, I play Elden ring as well and AN EXTRA HOUR?! That’s kinda crazy 🔥

I am upgrading from LCD to OLED. My biggest complaints about original deck was it was loud, heavy and had poor battery life. Valve is playing it smart. They focus on user experience. For example they don’t ship device with full HD screen because there is no chip that can handle Full HD screen and provide good battery life anyway.

[Tonno]

It's true that the battery life is INSANE. I literally did a transatlantic flight with 1 stopover and a total travel time of 12 hours (from the first flight departure), I played the whole time during the flights (FFX remaster) and i arrived at 3% battery (starting from 96 %) only when there were about 2h left. Excluding the 1h stopover in amsterdam it means that 93% of the battery lasted something like 9 hours. It's just insane. Then I simply charged it with a powerbank till 15% at around 15W charging, took like 20-30 mins while I was doing something else. Then played the other 1h30 while plugged to the powerbank to avoid getting the battery too low. 93% 9 hours. Any other PC handheld would have already died not even at the end of the first flight inside europe lol.

[jcru]

Listen you are not being overdramatic you are on point . The steam deck oled is amazing for a refresh . Just imaging the 3rd and 4th gen ! If you have the money definitely get the oled only ….if you have lcd just get rid of it lol you can give away trade sell whatever just start enjoying that oled now lol life is too short enjoy now .

[gungan]

Controller config on steam deck are 10 levels above the competition.

I don't think Valve actually has a marketing team. They make a product like once every 5 years and they just have the engineers do the ad roll.

[IM]

Have an LCD already like yourself. Ordered an LE even though I know I didn't need it, but man I Wanted it, and boy did it deliver in a way that feels way above just the specs and upgrades alone. It was already such a fantastic handheld, and the OLED upgraded nearly everything that should have been upgraded. It's fantastic all around. Now I have two Steam Decks which I got my Dad using for the game Sledders which scratches the itch of Snowmobiling while we were waiting for the snow during Christmas. Also. The OLED Deck is lighter, but the LE Deck, is even Lighter than that!?

[xellaz]

I own the previous Steam Deck LCD 500GB flagship version and still have no regrets getting the Steam Deck OLED LE version. The OLED screen just looks much better and the fan is so silent even when gaming. My LCD version gets too loud in comparison.

Valve is doing such a super job with the Steam Deck that I'll definitely get the Steam Deck 3 too whenever it gets released. 👍

[soumyajeetchakrabarty]

This has been very insightful, I am from India and a proud owner of steam deck, I am simply in love with valve & their team thanks to deck, everyday I learn something new about it & reflects how much time effort & thought they have put into making the steam deck lcd & now you are telling me that valve has done it again with oled deck. Just shows that they don’t take their customers for granted unlike some other companies. Can’t wait what they will come out with next.