D2R is flawed everywhere because it does not have a pure offline mode. Not even on the Switch.

Please contact Valve support.

The PlayStation Portal is a more complete product at launch for what it claims to be. That was not true for the Deck.

The Deck OLED got a 9 from them.

Also review scores don’t matter.

A couple things for everyone in this thread:

1. Steam Remote Play for HDR games probably doesn’t work yet. I know that using the Deck as the host definitely doesn’t stream HDR content, it tone maps it down to SDR. It’s unclear when that will change.

2. Moonlight currently cannot do HDR on the steam deck. They are waiting for the next release for ffmpeg before they can add this functionality.

Waiter, but I have grip tape on the top and bottom (avoiding the vents) so my fingers can be away from the screen.

I too choose this guy’s birthday

Very nice. I got my OG Deck almost on my birthday. It was supposed to be delivered that day but then FedEx delayed it by a day

Use the Sunshine and Moonlight combo if you want the lowest latency and best image quality. It’s a hair more work than remote play but it’s well worth it IMO.

PC connected via wifi is going to lead to larger latency. No way around that unfortunately.

Always have been

And you’d remember correctly 99.99% of the time.

Good design isn’t about the 99.99%. It’s about the 0.01%.

Step 1: take a screenshot of a completely black background

Step 2: open that screenshot when you’re downloading games

(I do agree though that this should be officially supported, but there’s more that goes into it. For example: what if you forget that just the screen is off and throw a running deck into a case and then into a backpack? So it wouldn’t be a simple feature. It would need to have mitigations built in, like turning the screen back on if the gyro detects movement or something).

From a screen standpoint this doesn’t matter that much. The screen does look a LOT better on 3.5 than it did before but if you have a reasonably modern phone at hand you can just do a comparison of its screen with the Deck IRL.

Good way to know if OLED is an upgrade that’s worth it for you.

I asked and was told that a higher refresh rate doesn’t consume any significant amount of extra power by itself. The power consumed by generating the frame is much higher than drawing it.

So running 40/40 and 40/80 should be basically the same in terms of power use.

Yes.

The screen was the only thing I didn’t like about the Deck. My comment history on this sub is littered with “I so wish there was an OLED deck”. I’m buying this thing as soon as I possibly can.

Worth noting that I have the means. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be upgrading or would at least try selling my original Deck first.