If it's any consolation, the Deck LCD is discounted by 20% for the next few weeks if you need to pick up a new one.
Yeah, I know most people will say the Deck is already too slow for 800p, so why would it pull 1080p well?
I have two decks, one's got Deck HD, the other doesn't. I render the Deck HD one at 540 native and upscale 2x with FSR. It looks way better than the stock display one and runs better as well. Similar with HZD and other highly demanding games.
That said, 99% of my time on the Deck is spent playing retro games. Does that need 1080p? No. Can it use it? Yes, very much so.
I never pick up the original deck anymore - the Deck HD modded one is just better.
i guess that's that then!
I mostly use SD to stream from my main rig, so i can always have >60fps on my SD.
- https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/handheld/legion-go/len106g000...
- https://rog.asus.com/gaming-handhelds-group/
Honestly, I think a gaming laptop and a controller makes more sense for most things, if you don't need that little bit of increased portability.
I'd love to see a steamdeck lite, with a similar size and weight to the switch. But still with the rounded hand grips of the steamdeck. The deck as it is feels like a HN designed product with way too much stuff jammed in it with no regard to size and weight. The trackpads are cool for desktop mode but the space taken up for something so rarely used isn't worth it.
This has been so comfortable that this helped me ignore the pain in my arm after a fracture/surgery this year.
Yes it can't play Cyberpunk but it'll handle native Android games, classic emulation, and any cloud streaming very well. You can also install moonlight on it and stream full fat desktop games too.
The Deck is amazing but a hardware refresh would be helpful
Wouldn't that depend heavily on the game and developer in question? The Switch 2 has more than sufficient hardware to compete, with a particularly beefy GPU for a handheld.
I'd be more ready to blame the game and developer in question than this console, unless there are a lot of examples from capable developers performing measurably worse.
Leaves the question who is to blame completely out.
And as a consumer I couldn't care less why it doesn't work. I paid for it, it doesn't work: I am not recommending it.
Easy as that. I don't have to write thesis about such stuff.
You're probably right though, if it's any consolation.
It doesn't change the reality though, that currently many of the cross platform titles don't work well on the Switch 2.
On Switch, I had to expensively rebuy games at high prices, which then ran poorly and didn't support any kind of settings to try to fix the situation.
On the Deck I get all my desktop Steam library and I can change game settings until they run as I like (within reason).
I don't see how those two are comparable purchases - I either get a console which runs poorly and demands 40$ for games that are like 5$ on Steam... or a console that already supports my existing library AND on top of that allows me to stream games from main PC at full detail and framerate.
The Switch 2 and the Steam Deck are hugely different machines, despite sharing a form factor.
Obviously SD can be more than just "handheld console", but a lot of people won't need that.
I spent like 98% of my playtime on the original in handheld. That has switched completely. It’s not just the size but especially the weight I think.
Though if I was buying it now, I'd want to see what the next generation offers.