DO NOT BUY Steam Deck OLED

So recently Valve has unexpectedly and

suddenly released an update to the Steam

Deck, the Steam Deck OLED, which kind of

makes me think that they must be really

panicking with all these really cool

Windows devices like the ROG Ally here,

which I personally think is the best

Windows handheld device. With all these

new handheld Windows-based gaming consoles

coming out recently, I bet Valve is really

sweating. That's why they rushed out this

new updated upgraded version of the Steam

Deck, which I have to say is kind of

lacking in faster as an update. And I

really just don't recommend buying this

upgrade. This Steam Deck OLED version just

doesn't really seem like it's that much of

a big upgrade apart from— okay, maybe the

screen is slightly brighter, slightly

sharper, slightly more colorful. But apart

from the OLED screen, there doesn't seem

to be much of a big difference between the

original Steam Deck and this Steam Deck

OLED. So I got the spec comparison on my

phone, and looking at the spec sheets

there doesn't really seem to be much of a

difference. So we got the, the OLED Steam

Deck has a 6nm APU instead of the 7nm

APU on the LCD Steam Deck. I really don't

think anyone's going to notice a

difference of 1nm. Do you know how thin

1nm is? It's so extremely thin you

couldn't even see it unless you have a

microscope. So I don't see how you're

going to even notice a difference between

6 or 7nm. You've got the RAM, it's updated

to LPDDR5-6400

RAM instead of the LPDDR5-5500

RAM which was in the original Steam Deck.

And then we have the display, obviously

it's OLED display. It's now got thinner

bezels, but the new display is 7.4-inch

compared to 7-inch on the original Steam

Deck, so it's like 0.4 inches of a

difference. It's like that much barely

anything. And then you got the refresh

rate at 90Hz compared to 60Hz. So okay,

you got a bit of a bump up in refresh

rate, but come on, are you really going to

notice 30Hz of refresh rate? I don't

really notice that much. So we also got a

storage upgrade of 512GB up

from 256GB, and we've got a slightly

bigger battery. The new battery is at 50W

compared to a 45W battery in the original

LCD Steam Deck, which is an improvement of

5 watts, which isn't that much. It's like

a 10% increase in the battery. So when I

did my testing on the Steam Deck when I

had it last year, I think I could play AAA

games for about an hour. So 10% of 1 hour

is like 10 minutes. So you've got an extra

10 minutes of gaming. Whoop-de-doo. I sold

my Steam Deck, by the way, so I could get

the ROG Ally, which, like I said earlier,

the ROG Ally is so much better. And also,

the ROG Ally doesn't have an OLED screen.

It has a very high-quality LCD panel. But

it still blows the Steam Deck OLED screen

out of the water, and it's got a really

good refresh rate as well. And also, the

weight of the Steam Deck OLED is now 640

grams instead of 669 grams of the original

Steam Deck, so it is slightly lighter. So

those comparison specs, there's not really

much of a big difference to make it worth

upgrading from the LCD Steam Deck to the

OLED Steam Deck unless you really want

that OLED. And I don't really know why

you'd want an OLED screen that

desperately. I have the Switch OLED and I

have the ROG Ally, and when I compare the

screens, they basically look the same.

Let me go and get my Switch OLED. Okay,

so here we have Cult of the Lamb loaded up

on both the ROG Ally and my Switch OLED.

And the purpose of this video or this test

is to show you that there's basically no

difference between a high-quality LCD

panel and an OLED. So first of all, let's

have a look at the Switch OLED. It's been

a while since I used this And coming from

the ROG Ally and big Windows-based

handheld gaming devices like the Steam

Deck, which are pretty chunky machines— I

mean, look at this thing and the big hand

grips— going from that and then going back

to the little tiny dainty Switch OLED,

which is really slim with really small

hand grips and controllers, actually feels

really good. Anyway, this video is not

about why I miss my Switch OLED, but I

mean, look at this screen quality. I've

got the brightness cranked up to max on

both devices. Let me show you. So we got

brightness max on the Switch OLED, and we

got brightness max on the ROG Ally.

So first of all, here's some gameplay on

the Switch OLED. I'll show you what it

looks like. It doesn't look great because

I'm showing you through a camera, so it's

going to look kind of weird, but this is

the best we can do really. So this is what

the game plays and looks like. Yeah, it

looks pretty good, but just hold on, I'll

show you the Artery Ally in a minute.

I used to love this game. I used to play

this game so much.

I have to say, the gameplay feels kind of

sluggish on this compared to the ROG Ally,

which I guess is to be expected because

ROG Ally is a lot more powerful.

Loading times on this is also very slow

compared to the ROG Ally.

Okay, anyway, I think you get the picture.

So this is the Switch OLED display. Now

I'm going to show you the ROG Ally

display. Okay, so here's the ROG Ally

display, same game, although the camera

angle seems to be more zoomed out than on

the Switch OLED. The game feels way faster

and snappier. That— this is like a

difference Between light and day.

This— oh my God, this feels kind of slow.

Look at the delay when I'm moving the

character. I press it and then he moves.

I press it and then he moves. I press it

and then he moves. I press roll and then

he moves. Look, pressing it,

there's a slight delay. I don't

know if you can tell on camera. And then

look at those loading screens. Look at

So that's the Switch OLED. Then going back

to the ROG Ally— oh my God,

just moving it, it's like instant. I

press, press roll and it's almost instant.

Wow. I mean, look at the display though.

Don't you think the display looks better

on this? And this is an LCD, not an OLED.

So I don't know why people are making this

big fuss. Oh, Steam Deck OLED, the

screen's got 1,000 nits brightness. Who

cares? This screen looks amazing. Look at

that. I swear

this looks way better than the Switch

OLED,

and it's faster. It's so responsive. Look

at this, it's so snappy

and quick. I feel like I press attack and

he attacks.

This feels way better than the Switch

OLED. I really want to

like the Switch OLED more because it's—

number one, it's cheaper, it's lighter,

easier to carry, better battery life. But

no, this ROG Ally just blows it out of the

water. Probably blows the Steam Deck out

of the water as well. And I would say do

not buy the Steam Deck OLED. I know it's

half the price of the Ally, it's like $350

compared to this which is $700, but come

on, if you're a gamer you've got to be

able to shell out a couple hundred extra

dollars to get something that is so much

better. I mean, the Steam Deck is okay and

everything for its price, but it is very

limiting and it doesn't have Windows, it

has Linux, which means you don't get Xbox

Gaming Pass, you don't have Blizzard

Store, so you can't play Diablo unless you

download some thingamajig. You can do this

stuff, I'm not saying you can't do it,

it's just it requires extra steps to be

able to do stuff you can do straight out

of the box with the ROG Ally. The ROG Ally

comes with Windows 11 built in. You can do

anything you can do on the computer, like

download Diablo or World of Warcraft

or Epic Games Store or Xbox Gaming Pass,

not just Steam, and do what

you would do on a computer on the ROG

Ally. But with the Steam Deck, you can

only use Steam and download Steam games,

and then if you want to do anything else,

you have to like Google how to sideload

Windows or download some app or program to

let you do the things you can already just

do on the ROG Ally. So I

don't know why you'd buy the Steam OLED

over the ROG Ally when they come out with

the Steam Deck 2, which actually runs

Windows natively by default.

Then it's a different conversation. But

this upgrade, the Steam Deck OLED upgrade,

is barely an upgrade. It just gives you an

OLED screen, which I think I've proved

there's no difference. I even prefer the

ROG Ally's LCD screen over the Switch

OLED's OLED screen, so It's not really

much of a selling point to me.

This game runs so well on this ROG Ally.

I wish it would let me move on, but I

don't know what I'm supposed to do, and I

can't be bothered to actually play it.

So yeah,