Before You Buy - Everything Wrong With Steam Deck OLED

The Steam Deck OLED has a few problems, but does it really matter? Let's talk about everything wrong with my steam deck OLED.
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Before You Buy - Everything Wrong With Steam Deck OLED

[Cute_Maxi]

not a single dead pixel is acceptable... "1 or 2 is acceptable" is just a cop-out for manufacturers

[literatemax]

The manufacturers are scammers if they think even a single dead pixel is acceptable

[SnijwitTv]

I've bough 3 decks at this point, the launch version which I have sold to a friend, a second launch deck for my GF for Christmas and the OLED version a couple weeks ago and can say without a doubt this is my favourite console. I love that it's so simple and seamless. I stopped playing console games when the Xbox One launch and went directly to PC, but pc although has great games its never felt as laid back as when I was playing the 360. The steam deck 100% offers that, and I love being able to sit in the tv room with everyone playing a game while they watch tv.

[elantran]

Also, a lot of people are experiencing wifi 5g signal loss on the OLED LE models.

[dantetirado]

My limited edition OLED had a dead pixel. It was kind of hard to notice when gaming but I knew it was there regardless after doing a dead pixel test. I sent it back and will hopefully get a replacement by next week, the wait is already excruciating

[ForcefighterX]

I got my Steam Deck OLED some days ago and so far I have had none of the issues described here. The physical faults are not present (yet?) and the usability is perfectly fine for me. This may be the reason why no other big YT channel has raised these issues discussed here - because they probably are just way to rare to be a realistic picture of the Steam Deck.

It's like saying every car breaks at 100k miles. Some break even at 10k, but this is not to be expected of every car. So if you think about buying a Steam Deck - expect a perfectly working product with no flaws whatsoever.

[jonathansilverblood]

I came into this video thinking someone might've found something, anything, that was actually bad with the OLED deck.

Well, all I got was damned nitpicking, except for maybe some dead pixels. I'll check mine when I get it. :)

[maximushermanite]

I finally bit the bullet and purchased the 512 OLED over the weekend. Thought about getting a SD since they first launched, but after the countless videos and articles talking about the new OLED version, I couldn’t resist any longer. I definitely thought about getting the Rog Ally since it’s got more power, but comparing the Ally to the SD is like comparing the Xbox series X to the series S….and I love my series S, I’m more of a casual gamer, I don’t need the most powerful piece of hardware on the market, I just want to play games and have fun😂

[Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

my big concern with getting a steam deck is how long before the requirement floor of new releases exceed the performance ceiling of the steam deck to keep a steady 30fps

[MrKrisSatan]

Thanks for making this video and testing your own steam deck, its reassuring to know that not every OLED model is faulty

[mr_snks]

lmao thank you for this glorious video I'll be honest I thought it was gonna be one of those reviews where you explain the cons and suggest when you should buy the competitors, not a video listing actual potential issues and what to do and what info there is for each scenario.
great video appreciated.

[ojunglisto]

A brand new product should not have any flaws, send it back if youre not happy

[h.b.]

My SD gets delivered today . This video is stressing me out ! 😅

[Jason-wkpm]

I unfortunately found a dead blue sub pixel on my LE. It suck’s because the LE is beautiful but I submitted a ticket to rma 24hrs ago; still waiting for a response back. If something isn’t 100% out of the box, I can’t trust it to last until steam deck 2, which may be another 2years.

I’m also bothered/annoyed that Valve would use a less reliable screen manufacturer for a product that they advertise as a “premium/special” version.

[c.]

My x y a b buttons rattle noticeably, but they function fine. I haven’t gotten to play it much so I haven’t found any other issues.

[joke]

Hi, can you tell me what kind of SSD I need to buy for a steamdeck? I would like to see at least the approximate characteristics of your SSD, how many watts it has and what is the name of this form factor? I have also heard a lot of stories about people who have had their steamdecks work for about a month after replacing their SSDs and then completely fail. I see that this video is about a year old, so most likely the SSD is working fine. Thanks in advance!

[AJarofToeJam]

Thanks for going through the list with your machine! My OLED has a lot of the issues and defects listed and I was curious whether some of them, like the rattling buttons, were common enough to be more byproducts of design choices rather than defects. I think previous owning an LCD Deck with none of these issues is what makes having these issues on the OLED Deck much more frustrating and disappointing regardless of good features and good pricing.

[AlexanderRuiz]

I have the stuck B bottom in my LCD steamdeck that one is annoying at the beginning it's not happen all the time it just happen sometimes and you need to double press to unstuck it

[giakhanhluong]

Which steamdeck oled version u have? Planned to buy a steamdeck oled 512gb, dead pixel only on LE version, right?

[winstonrhock]

I got a perfect 512 oled, upgraded to a 2tb ssd and 1 tb sd and it’s been awesome. Mainly play ff online