I had mine about 2 years now and I'm still in love ...I am a 47 year old gamer and it's a must have if you are a gamer..

Getting mine in the mail soon I’m hypedddd. Good review

Dope video. Editing on point. Nice and simple! I love my OLED and it’s definitely been my favorite gaming purchase since the ps4 .. maybe surpasses that.

The steam deck has the overall package which is why chose it over the competition. Only had it for a few weeks but definitely don’t regret it.

I got here as I am thinking to buy a second hand one. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, that was an honest 360 review.

Just got my 64gb lcd steamdeck and upgraded to 1tb ssd, a 1tb sdcard, screen protector, dbrand skin, joystick grips, magnetic usb-c charger to preserve the port, new back triggers and backplate with fan slot covers as well. Its faster, runs cooler, has more capacity, is fully protected, and looks amazing! Part of the fun was figuring out exactly what mods you want to do on your deck, it's a good time!

Completely agree with what you have said here. For me, I took about a day to set up my PS5 streaming, Xbox streaming and my emulation games but after that it is pretty much pick up and play. This is a "do whatever you want with it" kind of handheld console. Awesome video man.

Great video! Just ordered a steam deck on eBay for a little under 350$ its the 512gb model and im super excited to set up emulation on it aswell. I have a 3070ti in my desktop pc so this will definitely help me play through my backlog of sum older games.

It feels like im playing persona 5 with that audio of yours at the beginning..

How has your kill switch case been ?? 😊is it still holding up

The sounds on the home screen sound exactly like they do on xbox

I just returned my ROG Ally and ordered the 1TB SD OLED. Yea, the Ally is more powerful but it feels so unfinished. My first Ally came with a dead charger so I had to exchange it so, right off the bat, not a great experience. I’m willing to exchange FPS for stability.

Great coverage of the device. Do you find the battery still holding up well a year later? I really look forward to trying SD. Enjoyed the Ally a lot. One thing I will say, if colors were enabled via software it sounds to me like they made the colors washed out, only so they could release the OLED to upsell that, and then give LCD panels better colors to increase sales for those models too. Just a hunch 😂

SD to me is just too good. The repair ability is made user-friendly by valve. You can order parts online and repair it yourself once the warranty passes. How many companies can say the same?

Looking at the steam deck, you will realize what sony could have done for their players. Yet they decided to make the trash that is portal. I have a switch oled and plan on buying steam deck oled or lcd. I'm never going back to playstation.

I love it. The UI & software are very easy to navigate, and it doesn't have Windows jank. Its comfortable for big hands and graphics are decent. It is the most well rounded game system I have ever used.

The update that is a must the downloading while the screen is off as the OLED burn in screen is true horror, also in the summer it will be super hot and the pixels will die out alot faster valve have to make it much better to save the OLED models. let valve know 🙏🏼

Got mines last.momth and I've only been playing on it ever since

You don't need VRR to eliminate the stutter. Just allow frame tearing and disable Vsync for the game. You won't really notice tear lines at 90 Hz and the horizontal refresh orientation so there's little downside to doing this

What thumb grips and case is that on your steam deck?

Have you tried Destiny on the OLED. Asking because I want to know how well it runs on the OLED. I played on my phone using GeForce and it was bad but got the job done. Its responsiveness is pretty bad. So if I pushed my left joy stick up to move forward it would take half a second to react. Which is why I stopped paying for the membership. I saw some of ur older vids with the older version of steam deck and idk if it’s any better.

I have a gaming PC upstairs collecting dust. Not used since I bought a PS5. Bought a Switch oled last year for when I couldn't use the TV. Portal came out. Bought that. Not touched the Switch since. Traded it in with accessories and added £120. For a Steam deck oled 1tb. Grade A mint condition. Can't wait for it to arrive. As I have a decent library of old PC games.

i think quad channel ram is one of the reasons it runs better at lower watts. the others all have dual.

I want to love it but on trips, I'm the one driving or if seated in the back I get nousious if looking at my phone or trying to watch or play something, and my PC is beside my bed so I can grab a wireless controller and game in bed. I have my laptop connected to the TV to stream or play games directly on the couch. And if I'm out and about I want to enjoy the moment with friends and not be glued on a device playing games. So I had to sell mine. I tried using it to grind Apex Legends while away on 4 week holiday at the end of the season and with keyboard and mouse connected it just was a terrible experiance with input lag and low FPS.

Can a variable refresh rate be done through a software update?

What I love about steam os is how its core focus is simply playing games. Yes you can install windows but windows comes with so many distractions and opportunities to take you away from the game and that's something not a lot of people realise when you install windows. Its why I refuse to install windows even if it would make things like emulation easier or even better the priority of the steam deck is keeping you in the game and I appreciate it for that.

Im debating on getting one. I have a pc but would play some titles on while relaxing. Dont want to spend too much cash so im thinking of getting the LCD 256gb version instead of OLED...

Great video! I wouldn't say the steam deck is the king for everyone, but it's definitely is for me. My deciding factor for the steam deck ended up being those dual trackpads. They make typing and mouse-based game like Civilization a breeze. I'd like more performance, but no handheld in the market is strong enough to my likeing anyway. I ended up streaming game from my PC for the more demanding titles and that works perfectly.

i a bit disagree that on 15W rogally and LoGo crash SD in AAA games. All tests that i've seen showed that on 15W SD is if not better but literally perform the same as those two. These two windows hendheld crash SD only TDP > 15W which means you have to play pluged otherwise all you have is ~ 1 hour of gametime

What is the thing on the back of your steam deck ?

My 3080 struggles with Alan Wake 2 so i think any handheld has no chance

What was the grip on the switch?

Is this the same SteamDeck as your broken one from past months? Or a new one?

going to pick up 256gb secondhand today

Steam Deck is like a bottle of wine - it never gets old.

Buy an ROG Ally,. It's superior in almost every way. If Valve implemented VRR with the refresh, that would have helped a lot.

and thats only LCD, how about OLED!

I got both steam deck and Asus rolly and the steam deck I had longer but Asus is way better

It's like a prototype handheld that still fails to handle the top games. Its a nice early adopter like the tesla of handhelds. I want to play more demanding titles like warzone.

It is very costly, I don't know it's is durable or not

Yeah "almost" perfect, as long as you don't need stable WLAN and don't plan to use it docked on a modern 120hz 4k HDMI 2.1 VRR TV like the LG C2/3 or a Philipps 808. WLAN is just pure crap if you are using a AVM Fritzbox (around 70% of all households in germany use it) with mesh enabled and without separated 2,4ghz 5ghz networks. All what you hear in the forums is "mimimi the manufacture is guilty, because he is not delivering drivers for linux". To be honest - I don't care. If Valve designs a hardware they should think about the consumer market and what they need. If you bought the original dock to use the Steam Deck like a Nintendo Switch to play Indies like Dead Cells with 120hz on the TV you found the direct way to hell. I bought for 90€ the original dock because it supports VRR. Theoretically... reality is, if you enable VRR the dock is getting instantly unusable, because you will just have a black screen and nothing will work any more. You can't disable VRR in the settings, without an external TV connect - awesome! There is still a long way to go for Valve... I switched back to the Switch OLED (haha...)

I don't understand why anyone buys the Ally. The white plastic is so gross and I don't think it will be supported for long.

These comment makes me think of wii-u and how dog shit it is. Nintendo almost got thanos snapped out of the gaming industry cause of that miss input.

You made many points that proves this ain't the king but rather a middle tier gaming device

The orange pioneer will have two track pads, I'm excited for it!

GeForce now. Power problem solved the LCD and Oled deck are the greatest devices I’ve ever owned.