2y ago

Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED for November 16th

www.gamingonlinux.com

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That thumbnail has a Deck with a clear plastic shell piece. Please let this be another era of clear plastic electronics. GBA purple would be welcomed.
- Limited edition that's only available in US & Canada with limited stock
  
  booooo
- Don't valve release 3D models of all their parts to make it easier to swap them out/make your own?
Wait, does that mean we can start looking at HDR displays for regular Linux desktops in a near future?
- KDE is working on it for Plasma 6.
- Yes, Valve started working on that about a year ago or so. I think it's already available in the current Steam Deck software for external monitors. Valve's involvement has been great for Linux.
  
  Sheesh~ This kind of makes me dream of seeing a future Steam Deck (Or other Valve console) powerful enough to handle most VR games if they're going to keep on giving the Linux ecosystem a push for whatever features are important to them.
They literally fixed every problem I had with the Deck and more.
Really tempted to sell mine and upgrade.
- Does no one else really want multiple USB ports?
  
  I’ve seen a few people wanting another usb-c port. It would be neat, but personally as long as they keep the headphone jack, I’m happy with the one port. I just want to charge and listen to stuff at the same time, which I can do on the Deck unlike most modern phones.
Happy for everyone else but I just got mine like a year ago! Fuckity fuck fuck!
- Me too but I had a lot of fun the past few months 💁
  
  Yeah same here, I've only had mine a few months but I'm having a blast with it and don't see why that has to change just because there's something a bit nicer out there.
Cool, can we get a replacement part# for the screen, and can it be swapped into the original steam decks?
- I would be surprised if this would be possible. It seems that the revision is quite substantial.
- Apparently the new OLED screen will be available through iFixit
  
  Unfortunately Gamers Nexus has stated that new OLED screen will not be compatible with the old models. Perhaps there could be a third party solution though.
  around 8:08
- Valve employees have confirmed that the OLED display is incompatible with the LCD Deck's Mobo. So you can't upgrade just the screen.
  
  @jayandp @Pistcow and this is OK, normal hardware iteration. Me with the old Deck is still satisfied, can play the same way the same things with same ergonomics. For new players - yes, the upgrade seems much better for the same price (no like Nintendo did, by the way).
- can it be swapped into the original steam decks?
  Doubt, a lot of the internals also changed by at least a bit
- They already said that's a no unfortunately
- I'm pretty sure the new deck's screen is bigger, so I doubt that it'll fit.
Cool! Though I'm wondering that they didn't update the APU from Zen2+RDNA2 to Zen4-RDNA3.
- They have said they want to keep a fairly long-term performance target for game devs optimizing for the device. Consoles do the same thing. Another part of that is improving margins over time.
- Component cost, engineering cost, and it would change the performance target which could cause some devs to leave the old one behind
- None of the currently available RDNA3 APUs are good within their 5-15W target. They could custom design a smaller one but that would increase costs a lot and the perf benefits aren't that big when still limited by LPDDR5
If only I could even get the original in my country (New Zealand) 😔
I have the original 512. I'm going to have that custom shell. I am a sucker for consumption.. I must consume..
Steam deck is the coolest piece of tech I own. Maybe I need two now lol.
Nice! I was thinking about buying a deck, I'll wait for the new one, thanks for the news!

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