I still love playing latest Triple-A games, but not on release. Playing games on launch day is pretty much participating in payed Beta. Especially with developers asking you to raise technical support tickets, as if it was your job. What a joke.

I bought my Deck because I travel a lot, and there is nothing worse than boredom during travel. There is a lot of older games that can’t be played on Deck anyways. Cyberpunk being 3-years old game and being borderline unplayable on Deck, for example.

I still don’t know what to look for. I checked on YouTube but there is not that much about it either.

It’s LIMITED EDITION and it has worse screen than standard OLED?! What the actual shit?!

I am not impressed by VALVE’s reply, but at the same time I’m intrigued. Can bad pixel “fix” itself over time? That would be interesting to see. Maybe you should use it for a while. Play for a few days, see if there is any change. If not, at least we can call out VALVe for being full of shit.

It’s not very complicated but it’s really difficult to explain.

1. VALVe wants to make a PC console

2. They want to encourage developers to make games with Deck as one of the focus platforms

3. To encourage developers, VALVe wants one device, so it’s easier to code

4. Developers might be discouraged by many different variants of basically the same device

5. Steam Deck might be too young and risky for developers to focus their resources on, especially if they have to put additional efforts to code on many different variants

6. VALVe wants developers to treat Deck as a console, not as PC

7. Games usually run pretty well on consoles, because it’s easier to optimise on one device, instead of many variants and combinations of hardware. That’s why many games run better on consoles than on theoretically stronger PCs.

8. If a game is coded with Deck in mind from the get-go, it might outperform theoretically stronger PCs.

CD Projekt released Cyberpunk 2077 almost 3 years ago. The game is still a bag of garbage with dozens of issues that were known from release and never addressed to this day. And we are talking about a piece of software that you can fix by pressing buttons on your keyboard.

I’ll compare my LCD with my OLED once back home and come back to you. So far I’m loving the OLED screen. My LCD has back bleed and way too much ghosting during camera movement than I’d prefer. Colours coverage is also worse on LCD. I haven’t noticed anything wrong with controls, I’ll compare them and let you know how they feel. At the moment I can’t think of any lack in quality. The battery in OLED is way better, OLED is also quieter and runs cooler. In my case, subjectively, OLED is a huge improvement.

It would appear that only LE has BOE screens. Although I can’t be bothered looking it up on my standard OLED. I’m counting on VALVe to give us an option to check it in device information instead of searching for it in Desktop Mode. Just how they attached information of type of fan in LCD decks.