{"id":52614,"date":"2023-11-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/steam-deck-oled-review-better-not-faster\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:00:00","slug":"steam-deck-oled-review-better-not-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/steam-deck-oled-review-better-not-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Deck OLED review: better, not faster"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Good things often come to gamers who wait. There\u2019s always a slimmer, more power-efficient PlayStation or Xbox on the way. Nintendo has long hammered out attractive new combos of size, screen, color, and battery life for its Game Boy, DS, and Switch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Valve, with the new Steam Deck OLED<\/a>, may have created the best console revision ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It fixes my biggest complaints about Valve\u2019s original handheld gaming PC<\/a> and then some, without any new catch. Starting at $549 for 512GB of storage, it only costs $20 more than last year\u2019s model with half that capacity \u2014 or you can pay the same $649 as last year\u2019s 512GB to get 1TB now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But don\u2019t let the name fool you: unlike Nintendo\u2019s Switch OLED, the new Steam Deck isn\u2019t just a new screen and extra storage. It\u2019s a new battery, new chip, new cooling, a new 90Hz refresh rate, and well over a dozen other substantive changes. Almost all make the Steam Deck OLED hands-down <\/em>better than the original. It\u2019s so much better, I wouldn\u2019t buy an original Steam Deck anymore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here is a sentence lifted word for word from my test notes that might give you some idea: \u201cCyberpunk<\/em> is running faster<\/em>, more stable<\/em>, cooler<\/em>, quieter<\/em>, while drawing less<\/em> power from a larger<\/em> battery and looking brighter<\/em> and clearer<\/em> and better<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That\u2019s what I want for all of my games, and that\u2019s what I want for you.\u00a0Just know that when I wrote \u201cfaster,\u201d I only meant an extra four frames per second.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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