[Phiwise_]

Somewhat off-topic, but I've been feeling really burned by my steam deck purchase lately. When it came out, I gave Valve the benefit of the doubt there was some good reason why they weren't providing an OLED option, and bought the highest tier even though money is tight. I figured their commitment to opening the PC platform and quality hardware earned them my trust on that. Now what am I supposed to do? Sell my model and take a bath on the used item depreciation to get a worthwhile screen? Buy a second device with pretty much identical performance otherwise? Pay for the screen I should have been able to choose separately and go through the headache of replacing it myself? This is tripping at the finish line, especially since I waited a massive fraction of the time it took them to release this for the inferior version anyway. I get Valve prides themselves on being different than most other technology companies, but innovating on what delivering the best product you can for the money to your customer means is the wrong place to break the mold, especially for a company of Valve's profitability compared to overhead. On so many things, they could do much better at comparatively little dollar cost if they just thought wanting to was important. It's really disappointing how much this has correlated with their success.

[amiantos]

The original Steam Deck came out Feburary 2022 and the OLED model came out November 2023, nearly two years later.

> This is tripping at the finish line

It sounds like the only person tripping here is you.

[Phiwise_]

The original Steam Deck came out Feburary 2022 and the OLED model came out November 2023, nearly two years later, and I got my original Steam Deck nearly one year after giving Valve my money.

[amiantos]

Is this verbal algebra?

[Phiwise_]

How old are you?

[NikolaNovak]

I get the FOMO, But I have the original steam deck too and it's still great. Yes two years later something slightly better came out. No its nowhere nearly different enough for me to bother or be bothered. Technology changes but steam decks selling point was never that it would be bleeding edge technology (in fact there are many devices out with far higher specs) . It's a well thought out ergonomic device with great ecosystem. And the killer feature for many is the flawless sleep system which is there in our og unit :). Hopefully you don't end up too bummed out for too long that something slightly better came out two years later.

[Closi]

> Now what am I supposed to do?

I don’t know, maybe just live with your existing screen?

It’s not like it’s mandatory to have the latest version of something, and it’s pretty common for companies to iterate new versions with improvements.

[Phiwise_]

>Now what am I supposed to do? Sell my model and take a bath on the used item depreciation to get a worthwhile screen? Buy a second device with pretty much identical performance otherwise? Pay for the screen I should have been able to choose separately and go through the headache of replacing it myself?

[skinner927]

I agree. When Intel released the i7, I was pretty upset they were holding out all that tech and left me stranded with my Pentium 4.

[Phiwise_]

This is a mystifyingly bad comparison. Did Valve invent OLED? Did the Steam Deck release before that invention?

[ErneX]

Your Steam Deck does everything it was meant to do even if a better model is out. This happens all the time, Nintendo also released an improved model with OLED, it doesn’t make my launch Switch worse but it’s great people have the option to upgrade to that.

[branon]

Huh, I have TWO of the top end LCD models, bought them specifically because Valve hardware tends to be limited run and I didn't want to be left in the dust when they moved on.

Now the OLED is out, they're discontinuing the LCD models. Good thing I got two then! Feeling pretty vindicated about this.

It's all a matter of perspective. Be happy you snagged one of the rare, discontinued SKU ;)

[dotnet00]

It isn't exactly the same as OLED, but if you really want to upgrade your screen so much, you can look into the DeckHD screen.

[rsynnott]

Yes, indeed, once you, specifically, buy a thing all iteration on the thing should stop.

... Eh?

[Phiwise_]

Allow me to suggest to you that this is the inverse of my actual opinion.

[zachromorp]

This comment doesn't pass my Turing test

[Phiwise_]

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