Need some wisdom from y’all about deciding to upgrade or not. Not sure if it is worth or not. Waiting 2-3 years for a SD2 is pretty far away, right? This is my only gaming rig.
Wait. Your one works fine and sooner rather than later there will be the steam deck 2. Better to upgrade to that!
Yeah. I don’t think an upgrade is really worth it right now, unless you’re shitting money.
Do you love steam deck and have cash to blow and want a better one? Then go for it.
Is $550 very important to you? Maybe hold off.
You only had it for maybe a year. Let it ride. Spend the money on a 2tb upgrade.
I’m not upgrading, since it’s more a companion to my PC. Majority of my triple a games are on my PC so games I play on my deck are ones where I don’t run into issues with battery life and adjusting the vibrancy of the screen to make it less dull was enough for me to be fine with it not being OLED.
Bought the 512gb LCD via preorder, got a 2tb for it, upgraded/skinned it with personalizations, then got the LE OLED when it went live.
For me, personally, I thought it was well worth it. However I use it daily. I have a fully functional rig with 3080, but just find myself constantly tinkering with my deck and like being able to take it on work trips constantly with minimal impact to my carry on weight. Beyond the screen, the battery life is the real winner here in combination with the enhancements. But I also had the money to spend on it. If you’re tight for cash, then it’s probably best to wait. Or you could try selling to offset cost. Just really depends on what you want to do for extra battery life and the like.
Im in your boat. went full out as a spleurge and now want the new one. not going to do it. its just to much and it functions fine now. Im sure games will work fine on the original until 2 comes out.
What kind of games do you play?
If it’s mostly lighter colorful indie adventures or emulated classics, the improved battery life at low TDPs is pretty crazy, pushing 8-12 hours. Together with the pretty screen and 90 Hz refresh it’s a big quality bump.
If you mostly play heavy gray AAA competitive shooters, the experience will mostly be the same. The black levels on the screen will be much better and you might get another 30-45 mins of playtime but honestly you’re probably better off saving money toward the Deck 2 when Valve improves the CPU/GPU performance.
I am personally not upgrading. The original handles the types of games I play well. Are you finding lack of functionality with your existing system that would improve with the new version?
I managed to sell my 512gb to a guy who found himself off work from a back injury and wanted some immediate gratification on a purchase instead of waiting on an order.
So I threw an extra $180 in to get the 1TB oled ordered.
Didn’t actually think I’d end up getting my old one sold for what I was asking, but I was going to be happy keeping my 512 or happy spending a max out of pocket $180 more for the oled benefits.
Either way I was going to be content.
I wanted to keep with the anti glare screen no matter what. I had decided the most I’d spend to get the benefits of the oled was going to be about $175. So if I could sell my 512 for enough to spend another $175 for the oled, I’d be happy. If it wouldn’t sell for a high enough price to do that, I’d be happy keeping my LCD one. Either way I had a steam deck that I’d be enjoying.
Decide how much extra you’d be willing to pay for the minor upgrades and be happy either way.
I’ll probably never use a 90 hz refresh rate on the SD. Most of the games I run at 40 anyhow. I also haven’t ever had to play on max brightness and don’t find the colors of the lcd screen bother me, so the oled benefits are pretty minor for me. 6e wifi is well beyond the internet ill have for a long time, so thats irrelevant to me. What I do like is the bigger battery and more efficient APU that keeps the SD oled quieter and having the 1TB ssd without having to spend an extra $80 to order a 1TB ssd and install it myself.
Perks worth some money to me, but not a whole lot of money to me.
