Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer

Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:11AM (#39775033)

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.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by amiantos on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:32AM (#39775121)

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.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:39PM (#39780930)

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.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by amiantos on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:53PM (#39784266)

Is this verbal algebra?

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:19PM (#39795871)

How old are you?

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by NikolaNovak on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:45AM (#39775781)

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.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Closi on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:31AM (#39775428)

> 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.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:23AM (#39805607)

>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?

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by skinner927 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:40AM (#39775480)

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.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:38PM (#39780903)

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

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by cladopa on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:32AM (#39775709)

I have recent and close contact with Ukrainian refugees, with people that are losing young family members in the war.

So imagine my reaction when I read something like your commentary. It looks like you are suffering so much because you bought a product with a screen that has been updated. It seems for you is a real dramatic situation, like you really believe that this makes your life miserable or the life of your children or something.

People that do not have real problems in life will create them from minutiae.

I have seen and tested the normal steam deck and it is a great product. The steam guys have done a great job with the engineering team and time they had. if you don't like something don't buy it, you are not entitled to fantasy products that should be perfect. Reality is not perfect. The Steam guys release something when its done and things done right in real world take more time that what they should in fantasyland of ideas.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Dalewyn on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:40AM (#39775764)

The suffering of wartime civilians do not downplay the feeling (or fact?) of having spent $400~650 and ending up unsatisfied.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by andybak on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:35AM (#39776066)

I think it kinda does in a "Ooops. I just got a sense of perspective..." way.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:57AM (#39776198)

I don't get perspective from that comment, I get "this person is getting too upset about an internet comment and doing the very thing they're complaining about". Don't try to invalidate the very idea of small issues.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:47PM (#39781054)

Yes, how dare I give my opinion about tech on a thread about that tech on a forum collecting opinions on tech while children in Africa are dying of unpotable water diseases etc. etc.

In kind, imagine my reaction when I see you spending your time complaining about the inhumanity of my opinion about a product from your air conditioned first world ivory tower when you could fly to the third world, pick up a rifle, jump in a foxhole, and protect the poor children you claim to hold in perspective more than anyone else.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by zachromorp on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:43AM (#39776110)

This comment doesn't pass my Turing test

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:48PM (#39781064)

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by rsynnott on Thursday March 21, 2024 @07:08AM (#39777100)

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

... Eh?

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by Phiwise_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:49PM (#39781078)

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

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by ErneX on Thursday March 21, 2024 @07:59AM (#39777444)

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.

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by branon on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:17AM (#39777573)

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 ;)

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Re:Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED lau... by dotnet00 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @09:28AM (#39778272)

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.

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