So who wants to buy my 512gb LCD? 😅
I love my steam deck, I also just got it like 2 months ago. If I knew this was coming, I might’ve waited. Either way, my girlfriend is probably going to get a cool hand me down in the next couple months.
It doesn’t look to bad, and knowing I don’t currently have a Steam Deck I’d love to get one at some stage.
Biggest improvement is probably the 30-50% increase in battery life. The deck already gets much better battery life than the ROG Ally or Lenovo Go (especially on low demanding games, it can get 2-4x the battery life), so this will further cement it as the best handheld PC for actually playing without the device plugged in.
The deck already gets much better battery life than the ROG Ally or Lenovo Go
That’s mostly because it’s significantly less powerful. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, it’s just a different approach to mobile gaming.
I’m usually not far from a power cable/outlet, and I usually stream from desktop at home, so power consumption isn’t an issue for me, personally.
I mean running the same game at the same settings/resolution/etc the Deck will get significantly better battery life. You can offset this somewhat by using task manager to close background processes in windows, but it still takes a lot more power to run stuff on the ROG Ally than the deck.
An example from Ally reviews was Stardew valley ran at 6-8w on the deck, but was pulling 16-20w on the Ally with same settings. Using task manager to close windows processes for the Ally down to the 12-15w range, but that’s still a huge jump. This isn’t even taking into consideration that you can tweak deck performance settings to run Stardew valley at a much lower power setting, I’ve seen people go as low as 3.8w giving them 10+ hours of battery life.
I mean running the same game at the same settings/resolution/etc the Deck will get significantly better battery life.
Yes, that is, as I said, because it is much less powerful.
I keep getting tempted to buy this or the LCD version, but I don’t even play on the go. Anybody with a powerful desktop (mine is 6800xt) have a steam deck? Do you prefer one over the other!
I mostly game stream to mine but I still get AAA mileage out of it when there’s no network available. I’ve been chipping away at TotK, streamed from my desktop.
The pause functionality is awesome. You pause/suspend the deck with one button. Then whenever you come back to the game you hit the same button and boom right where you left off. Perfect for short sessions here and there. I’ve completed more games on the Deck in the past year than I have on my desktop in the past 5 years.
