Thanks! I was on the fence about getting one but now i definitely will! Subscribed! Good work man!

I'm good with my LCD Steam Deck, but when the SD2 releases I'm on it day one.

The Oled is a great revision but happy with my LCD for now. Hoping for some new colourways when i do update as the limited edition looks awesome.

Aye!! A new video. The picture quality is amazing. Love the shirt. ✈

The best upgrade and best piece of gaming tech I ever bought

10:00 what everyone is here for, the discussion about etched vs glossy oled display

On the fence about getting OLEDSD but ended up deciding if i can afford to get it before SD2 then i will. Partially bc bigger screen/oled/battery ect., but also partially bc i would like to support Valve and everything they're doing for the handheld industrustry.

I bought the OLED fairly soon after release and oh my... It's a daily driver for me. I play the Deck for at least half an hour every day on commutes, breaks or at home. At home it makes for a far more relaxed and social gaming experience, being in the living room laying on the couch playing games while not being totally removed up in my room on my PC. I'm an emulation geek too, and it plays pretty much everything I want from my retro library and even a few PS3 games. Plus with some proton tinkering and fine tuning with Lutris, getting older non-steam PC games working is fairly easy and insanely smooth to play. Hell, I've been playing Spider-Man 3, a pretty bad game but I have insane nostalgia for it, and the PC version on the Deck plays as perfectly as you can get for that game, and the only issues I have with it are bugs with the port, the Deck just plays everything I want exactly how I want. I'm not a visuals gal, I can take a hit to graphics if I get better performance, and the more modern titles I have still work phenomenally. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and Miles Morales (another Spider-Man game, shocker) are fantastic at 30fps, the same frame rate as the PS4 originals so it doesn't bother me. The Steam Deck isn't perfect, but for me it is. The battery lasts longer than I'd ever need in one session, the screen is drop dead gorgeous, the games I can play on it still blows my mind, the availability of replacement parts warms my heart for my right to repair mentality, I could go on and on. Valve made a phenomenal console here, and even though Linux compatibility with Windows games isn't perfect, it's getting there, and I'd rather have a Linux based device that's cheaper and plays almost everything I want, than a Windows device like the ROG Ally that may be better, but is either way more expensive or doesn't have enough battery life to last the longer play sessions I may have. I haven't touched any of my other handhelds since I got the Deck, my Vita, PSP and 3DS are weeping in the corner gathering dust as I play the Steam Deck every day, and I've only played on my PC 3 times in the last 2-3 months. For me, the Steam Deck is a dream come true. True portability of games I could only ever dream of playing away from home. Like seriously, we have some PS5 level games that you can play literally ANYWHERE with no internet connection to bog you down, that just blows my mind. I could be in the middle of nowhere on a camping trip and still be able to play God of War or Spider-Man Miles Morales, granted I bring a few battery banks with me for charging, but I could do it, and I WILL do it some point soon ish, maybe in the summer, actually a fun idea now I think about it

I got both LCD and OLED versions. Steam Deck 2 is also a day 1 purchase for me.

Very good review! I couldn't add a lot more.

I subscribed to your channel yesterday and I must say your videos are so stunning you are really good at this video editing thing , the quality of your shots are top tier , keep up the good work and also I'm saving up to get the steam deck oled cus If I get the ps5 ill need to get a TV or monitor which I don't have the money for right now lol

Great video, I love how thorough you are with your opinions. I do have a couple of things I think could help you. I noticed you changed your "set", try lower your light source or moving it back so you don't get those shadows under your eyes. A ring light around your camera could help too, just something to put a little more direct light on your face. Also, could you list the games you're playing in your videos? I'm interested in checking some of them out, but I don't know what they are. Other than that you're great man. Keep up the awesome work.

I love the oled glad i upgraded

Thanks Brock, good luck in the NFC championship game❗️

Going to buy a steam deck LCD soon. Yes I would like the OLED model but I'm sure the original will be fine for me. I'm interested in using mine for retro games so should be brilliant.

thanks for the video! small feedback! if you could put up the names of the games you're showing off in all the game-plays at the corner or something, would be great! thanks for all the quality production work!

Hey bro Great video like always 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

What is the face plate you use (jsaux?) and what about the red thumb sticks? It looks so good!

I bought the oled 1 month ago, since then I stopped using my desktop PC . IT. IS. AWESOME. And I'm not into mobile gaming... It's just so comfy and almost everything can run on it

If you wanted to add maybe a little bit of numbers into the video, to test wifi 6e, you could have downloaded a game like Cyberpunk on the lcd and oled and show the difference in speed in real world scenario. Also the standby issue, you could have charged the devices at 100%, launched a game, put the devices on sleep and in 24/48h you could have seen the different battery % between the two, to confirm your findings.

I’ve not owned a steam deck before so the oled will be my first I’m quite excited to get my hands on it finally

The Batocera Beast!

Valve was smart! You can't up the resolution, other wise... The battery gets the biggest hits. On a handheld, battery is everything. That's what the other companies don't get. I love gaming on the 800p deck :)

I'm continuously impressed with Valve as a company, they really are the benchmark when it comes to hardware, software, and video games. They know and listen to the community as well. And they aren't some overprotective helicopter parent like a Nintendo or Microsoft, Valve will go "hey we really, really don't think you should be doing this, but here are the tools to do it." They can put out an already terrific handheld and then optimize to one of the greatest handhelds of all time, all without making the owners of the original LCD feel cheated. It perfectly straddles the line between PC gaming and console. People without PC gaming experience can pick up a SD and just play it and tech savvy folks can do even more with it. And they don't wall you in like Apple. They'll not only let you add non-Steam games, they've all but allowed you to play some of those hot games online with Steam, seemingly antithetical to their biggest money maker. I've basically made my SD a Nintendo Switch that plays all of Nintendo's catalog. The Switch is Nintendo's current gen flagship. That says something about your company's consumer-friendliness if people are buying another company's handheld to emulate your games with EmuDeck instead of playing it natively on your handheld. Oh and Valve's haptics and buttons are best in the business. I hope they release a Steam Deck controller, everything but the screen, so I can ditch my dualsense.

You're the first video I watched that talks about the higher battery drain during sleep, thanks for pointing that out!

does anyone know what steam deck shell he has with the red thumbsticks? It looks insane!

The Steam Deck OLED is amazing! Been playing Helldivers 2!

Nice job on the video sir!

Syd from Ice Age fame is right, the Steam Deck OLED is awesome!

Curious what that fighting game is in the beginning ?

I freaking love my OLED naand I’m constantly surprised at what it’s capable of running. It’s hands down the best handheld on the market even if it doesn’t have the best raw performance. The entire experience of using it just top notch. Can’t wait for the SD2 in some years but I’ll be happily using this in the mean time

So there is still a chance for Thumb stick drift ? Also a bit concerned about the dead pixels and headphone jack issues. Are the new batch of steam decks have less issues that i mentioned ?

Still on the fence about getting this. I could afford to wait and let my backlog sit and just get the sd2 at release.

I got the 399 lcd deck 64gb with a swapped ssd. I really wanted the oled for the colors and new shell. Ultimately went after a Rog Ally for a 2nd and haven't looked at my deck in a while. Some of the survivor games I play drop fps pretty low on deck

damn i was ready to pull the trigger for that translucent oled deck but the resale is thru the roof

I have the first deck. Jesus this thing is amazing! I could buy a 2 TB SSD to install both windows and Linux. But... I already have a laptop with 1tb, and man moving everything to a new SSD.. just a drag, so I'll wait until getting the OLED. But this upgrade looks sick!

I've just bought one because I travel a lot and hope the OLED display means I can actually see something in bright light situations compared to my LCD one. Will find out in a few days...

About to buy mine. I sold my Rog ally and legion go.i got my Xbox for gamepass games and steam deck im gonna use emulations/indie games .main reason im getting it is because of oled.i got Samsung qled tv and it makes huge difference playing on it instead of normal gaming monitor

What was the space game?

Bought a PS5 Portal so my Oled Switch and accessories, games are not needed. Traded in today towards a 1tb Steam deck oled. Cannot wait as the Oled screen on the Switch is excellent.

I’m getting to Steam Deck OLED for sure. I just have to.

i was really happy with my regular one but know i need the oled. i love the psvita so everything oled i want

Get glossy display with matte finish screen protector to avoid "oily rainbow" glow.

What is the game at 3:00 ? I am looking for something that looks fun like that.

What was the game with the character shooting the bow and arrow?

Those glowing stickers are dope, where can I buy them?

pretty cool

Hi, very good video but I was wondering what the game is at 3:01

Waiting for steamdeck 2. Hope it will release as oled.

What is the game at 5:50? Great video, by the way-thank you.

SD2 around the corner when a refresh is released!

You waited yet you got the limited edition see though OLEd?

Just bought a Switch OLED a few weeks ago.... Now I'm hearing about switch 2 possibly coming out this year, can't decide if i should wait for it or just get a steam deck OLED and emulate Nintendo games??

1:12 what game is that? Is it Sifu or another fighting game?

What games were you playing? Especially the fighting karate game

Correction: Price is not same, they reduced the price.

can it run helldivers?

Don’t forget the if you can’t afford this but you look into a lot of handhelds, the standard 256gb steam deck is very reasonable at just over $300. Yes that’s a lot but it’s on par with what some android emulator cost.

love my deck oled, my poor lcd is collecting dust

An easy 90% of people will be happier with the etched OLED than with the glossy version. So many people smack a diffusing screen protector on their phone and are happyer than ever, because reflections are way more problematic than a tiny bit of color diffusion. My question is, will this be the template Valve will build a SD2 on? Sure, we might see a 900p screen instead of 800p with a new SoC, but what else? Will the shape change? More mappable buttons? Most things seem to be upgradable without even touching the shell, like they hav e shown with the OLED, ut will people cry about it like they cry about Smartphone and linking new/better to a new exterior design?

But should I wait for the Steam Deck 2 to come out? I assume it'll have more power

One you go Oled you don't go back , My monitor , TV , Phone and my handheld all are Oled Display now :)

whats the name of the 3d fighting game thats showing?

whats the game at 6.05? btw great vid

I want the limited edition so bad, but unfortunately is not available in my region. 😕🙄

I don't have a steam deck so I'm gunna be getting the oled in the next few weeks

Do u like Ally or Deck more?

1:15 what game is this?

5:30 What is the title of this game? 🤔🤔

I went with rog ally z1

Is it even worth it tho because I don’t have a steam deck and I’m wondering if I should just buy a used lcd instead of buying a new oled.

What game are you playing at 3:00?

What's the name of the martial arts game in your B-roll ?? looks like a fun game

Who else is binging vids waiting for theirs 😂

it's already been 2 months?

We come a long way Sega game gear boys! 😆

When the LCD Steam Deck came out, a friend of mine immediately bought one. When I touched it for the first time, I did not like it at all. It felt kind of cheap, unstable and the screen was mediocre. I always wanted a solid handheld since I adore handheld gaming (PSP/PSvita - thank you). When the OLED version came out - this was a total game changer. It feels just right. With a friend of mine, we compared our decks and OLED feels like finished product. Still, it LCD version is a great device, but until you touch the OLED one. I would even recommend to sell your LCD version and buy the OLED one if you have the opportunity. AND if you still think, do you need Steam Deck at all, I had the same thoughts, and here is my use case: I have solid PC, 2 XBOX Series S and Playstation Vita. The second XBOX was bought for my girlfriend so we could play together, but after that we bought ourselves PC's. I spend a lot of time at my desk during work and sometimes even if I want to play, I am simply too overwhelmed and just want to sit somewhere else. I started to play games and enjoy them even more after I got my Steam Deck OLED!

Anybody know what baseball game got flashed at @2:11

someone need to list the games in the video

3:03 what game is this please

What was that karate game you were playing?

Great Video. Just one thing, this is the second time i noticed that the sponsored bit is not clearly disclosed at the start of the segment, and in my opinion, gives a huge negative impact on the overall video. In the future (at the start of the segment) please clearly state when something is sponsored, ex: (this video is sponsored by .../ Today's sponsor...)

What game is this? 9:27

That dead pixel tho. 😑 Top, towards the middle right of your screen.

hey how is the name of the game like appears kinda samurai, thanks

Limit the game's fps to 45 fps but keep the screen refresh rate at 90hz for the smoother gaming at lower fps

anyone know what the game at 03:00 is ?

game at 6:05?

It’s a cool device, but between the bad mura effect on the Samsung panel that is very noticeable in low light conditions, buzzing 3.5mm headphone jack and a left speaker that creates horrible distortion at certain frequencies even at low volume levels, I decided to return it for a full refund. If it was just the mura or 3.5mm jack, I could probably live with it, but 3 issues is a bit too much. I’ll wait to see if there’s a revision with an improved or better calibrated panel and in the meanwhile I’ll give the Legion Go a try since it might be a better fit for my use case scenario (SD display is just at the limit of what my old eyes can handle). I know the Go comes with its own set of issues, but if the pros outweighs the cons, I might be willing to work around them. Time will tell.

I’m not sure why people obsess over a 1080p screen. 1080p requires more GPU to drive, which reduces battery life, increases heat, and delivers worse performance on the same SoC. At 7”, 720p/800p looks fine. It looks great. “Bigger number better” is a shit product design strategy.

Should I get the Steam OLED even though I have a Switch?

Sadly, on my Deck OLED, I have the headphone static issue ;-; and I am too scared to attempt the fix myself since you need to take a daughter-board out

What do you guys think about the Ally Z1 at $399 on sale at Bestbuy? Would your rather buy the base 256GB LCD SteamDeck?

The LE is lighter than standard oled, so 30g lighter is inaccurate.

9/10 games have static healthbars etc. And if you play several hours.. gg🎉

I’m in the small minority in the comments who will be purchasing the Oled since I never owned the LCD version

How come so few people are talking about the bad ”Mura effect”? I returned my Steam Deck OLED because it was SO bad, the grey menus/interface looked so noisy and corny as well with games with many grey tones. It was the Samsung screen btw. Perhaps I was unlucky?

What is the game at 3:01?

If you're happy with the lcd.. It's truly an ignorance is bliss situation.. You have no idea what you're missing 🤷🏿‍♂️

I recommend the gpd win mini if you have the money, better performance and better operating system and design. Way easier to pirate too and emulate. *I have both