I made this exact mistake when the Switch OLED came out. I got caught up in hype, I bought the new one, and slowly it dawned on me that I just spent 300 extra dollars for exactly the same machine I already had, and a screen that, as good as it was, was NOT worth that 300 dollars.

If you don’t own a Steam deck, then go nuts! Do what you want.

If you already own a Steam Deck, you already own everything you actually wanted a Steam deck for. An OLED screen is not going to make the games you already play somehow magically better. You’re fine. Chill out

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    1 year ago

    The Deck v. Switch argument here doesn’t quite match though. OLED performance is higher with a 90Hz refresh, better potential FPS due to the faster memory, longer battery life, etc.

    That said, if you do already have a Deck, you’d be better served to just learn how to take it apart, and get a 1TB 2230 SSD from OWC for like, $70. Boom, now you don’t need an OLED Deck because you can just have more games to play now.