Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “It’s So Much Better”.
I want to talk about the OLED steam deck. You’Ve been tuned out, but have you seen anything about it, um? No, it is incredible. Are you ready to buy a steam deck, sir? Is that the only change? No okay, tell me about it. So that’s the one that valve is talking about. Okay, so, first of all, it’s not just an OLED display.
It is an HDR OLED display 1,000 nits Peak brightness. Oh valve did a ton of work wow on Linux to make this color P pipeline work not just work, but they are they’re extremely proud of the way that you can just launch an HDR game and it’ll just be an HDR, very, very incredible, really like it’s. It’S outstanding um, it’s bigger it’s 7.4 instead of 7 in so that’s without changing the body, it just has a slightly Slimmer bezel frame a slightly bigger screen. Oh so it is not bigger. Just the screen bigger just the screen’s, bigger cool, the um. The refresh rate is now 90 Herz. That’S actually enormous, like I freaking awesome yeah, like obviously 30 to 60, is like the one that like matters but going from 60 to 90, is still huge, yep um. Let me try and think man.
This thing is just kind of freaking awesome: um they didn’t increase the price. The price is the same at the three tiers except the middle tier went up 20 bucks uh, but the storage is way higher, so they don’t even have that 64 gig option anymore with like emmc or whatever. It’S all real ssds across the board.
Um. They slightly revised a couple of things like the the buttons for the shoulders are on the same PCB as the joystick buttons now, so the parts aren’t interchangeable uh they changed the cooler, though the cool cooler is more efficient, quieter, um, the big, oh, oh yeah, the Battery life is up, we measured about 45 %, but they claim anywhere from 30 to 50 %. So it’s a bigger battery and get this new silicon.
They went from 7 nanometer to 6 nanometer, it’s just a die shrink, so the performance Target is the same, but it does perform better yeah, okay, cuz it just like turbo a bit higher and is, and that’s part of where that that battery life gain uh from It has a new Wi-Fi chip that downloads games three times faster. That’S what they said. We validated that so they’ll download games that up to 650 megabit per second on a Wi-Fi 60 Network.
It’S kind of freaking awesome W! Oh, oh where’d that go well! Why is there a limited edition? What does that even mean yeah? It’S just a color way. Don’T worry about it! Oh okay, uh! This is uh. Ah Brandon from the lab sent me this uh, this cool capture.
We did some Pursuit camera stuff, showing the increasing clarity on the OLED display, never mind the increase in refresh rate, and it is amazing compared to the original one. I said we should add it to the wow DOC for, like a wasn’t a video segment but um. I don’t know, maybe it got lost somewhere along the line, but the display is flipping cool.
They apparently revised the hoptics and speakers and a couple of other things a bit. We didn’t notice as big of a difference with that, though, the big one was the display. The improved performance and the improved battery life and the fact that they now have more storage without increasing the price.
I think it. It was already a great value and an awesome device. I think now it is. I would hesitate to call anything perfect. It’S not perfect. U, you know it’s not going to run games that don’t work outside of windows.
It’S um! It’S still big! It’S bulky right, like? U not everyone’s into that gigantic form factor it’s one of the reasons that I daily drive an ally instead of the original steam deck uh um. But I would say it is definitive. It is right. It addresses every problem that I had with the original steam deck that can be addressed um other than just you know more performance, a generational Improvement on whatever exactly yeah. Are you ready to get one? I don’t know I have a lot of like so you’d. Rather get an AI lapel pin. No, I want you to get that. Ah yeah wow. I don’t want one ridiculous. I don’t want one of those dude come on. I it’s it’s definitely interesting. It looks really cool.
I do think you’re. The 90 HZ thing is honestly. The biggest win for me, I care a lot more about that than it being HDR or whatever else. I think that stuff is cool.
Oh the display looks so good, though I mean I’m sure. That’S value and good you’ve seen the switch OLED next to the regular switch right uh. Actually, no, oh, oh okay. All right, never mind.
I suspect it is the same display as the switch OLED and Nintendo just doesn’t have an HDR pipeline. That is my suspicion. Uh, based on the similarity of the sub pixel layout um, based on the similarity of the pixel density, it may not be the same same. It may not actually come from the same motherg glass, but it also might they’re very similar.
I my my only thing is uh yeah. I have a lot of potential pending expenses, so I’m not really in a spendy mode. All right, that’s fair enough, but this does sound great and maybe we’ll see how I feel closer to actual launch when is actual launch the 17th or something CL like a week, 16th yeah wow, wow, wow wow. I wonder how fast this one’s going to sell out.
Do you think they’re going to backlog immediately again, oh yeah yeah, 100 % yeah yep. I I hate to give people ideas, but realistically they already had the idea. So it’s not like I’m changing anything but uh. If I was a scalper I’d be all over this one yeah yeah, I think this is going to be.
I think this is going to be backlogged for months again, but then again you know, I don’t know, maybe a big part of the reason. The original deck was backlogged was not because of the volume of orders, but rather because of the capacity that valve had for manufacturing them. Maybe that capacity is way higher. Maybe they’ve been stockpiling these things for the last month.
I don’t know um yeah, they might see it coming this time, maybe maybe don’t know. .