Why I chose the Steam Deck 

Honestly, the instant sleep/resume and overall polish of SteamOS is the biggest draw for me. I want a portable gaming that has great battery life and allows me to quickly get gaming within seconds during commutes or downtime - not bogged down with windows login, OS + driver updates, popups, and UI + input workarounds between different apps and launchers. Steam Deck OLED is the easy choice.

What makes this the best is not really the performance but the value. This is nearly £200 cheaper than the Legion go in the UK.

Love the small shout out to transistor haha, I love that game!

Love the deck. Steams winter sale is live. Just picked up Monster Hunter Rise, Jurassic World Evolution 2, Callisto Protocol, Witcher 3, and Fallout 76 for less than $100

Great vid. I’d love to see some follow up videos on the steam deck oled. I’m thinking of buying one myself.

I just tried this with RoboCop quacked version and it worked. Will it work for spiderman as well? I heard there is another way by connecting a second controller.

Have both right now. Cant decide between the two haha. Been doing a lot of comparisons and tests for a while. For some reason streaming from my ps5 using chiaki is pulling ahead by quite a ways on the ally compared to the deck oled with chiaki4deck. Not sure why. Both were doing good, but now the steam deck has horrible blurriness when you turn the camera. Steamdeck feels more comfortable, but if streaming doesnt work as well, leaning towards keeping the ally for the increase power, 1080p, gamepass, streaming, and better storefront potential with playnite.

Steam deck is great! But game compatibility was my biggest issue. Decided to get the rog ally. I love how this category is growing.

Excellent video!

Returned my ROG ally for the new deck.

Ironically this helped me decide to get the Legion go.

what is the game you playing at 5:54

talking about standby and quick bot, doesn't ROG ally also have it? we can costumize the power button for hibernate mode, so what is the difference with SteamDeck then? i never own a SteamDeck tho, opinion??

Steam Deck OLED is the same price with the ROG Ally where I'm from (unless you can get a parcel forwarder and purchase on your behalf in the US, it's 10% customs tax + shipping + service fee). Could've gone with ROG Ally but Asus is not really as dedicated to their product after-purchase support as Valve does. That alone makes it worth and inspire confidence that it will be relevant for years. Aside from that, Valve really made low spec gaming feasible. with the OLED; TDP locked at 15w, 45FPS lock - I managed to squeeze close to 3 hours of play in GTA V. the 90hz screen made 45fps really smooth and playable. I am always in the impression that 60fps is the standard for a game to be playable but the Steam Deck changed that. Maybe 60fps minimum may still be a necessity for competitive games. Finally, I can get around playing my steam backlog (I'm not even halfway thru The Witcher 3 after I bought it years ago).

Thank you so much im getting the sd oled

Great vid

I am not sure if it's a fair comparison here - SD runs games at 800p and the other platforms are running the games at 1080p! All of the platforms should be 800p.

High quality video. keep posting more tech stuff please!

lol I didn’t get the limited edition because I was too on the fence about whether or not to get a deck or not so I waited too long, but I just got a skin for my steam deck oled so now it looks completely different than the original design or even the limited edition design

Would you mind listing the games you showed in this review? Some of them look really fun but I'm don't recognize them.

eastern european here, hope this doesen't come out as racist: the orange on the steam deck goes so well with black skin.

Hi! May I know what game is that on 7:28 time stamp?

Are they even running the same graphical setting, which has a huge impact on the FPS benchmark? Also, why not test them all at the same resolution and also test the performance per watt?

im sorry, this is a great video, not gonna lie, but for some reason, i could not stop thinking that you sound like sponge bob ( BTW, was is doubt if i should get the deck over the ally xt, was a bit concerned about performance, but i think you sold the deck to me, i can always stream more demanding games from my desktop ) does emulation work okay on this (ps3 and switch)?

I have the Ally and totally love it! The weight difference it’s laughable because the Ally is lighter and smaller than the Deck. I wanted to see what the big hype is so I just ordered a 512GB OLED Steam Deck. We’ll see how it goes.

Interestingly the Steamdeck custom apu often outperforms the Z1 extreme at sub 15 watt tdp and can be set to lower wattages than any windows handheld.

BOE made the oled panels for the SE units. If you got no dead pixels the boe panel is better.

if im at home and wanna play the bigger triple a titles like baldurs gate 3 i just stream them from my pc they actually look amazing and run great.

idk man. there are many people stating the etched glass matte look doesn't pop (oled and hdr wise) like the glossy finish on the 512gig model. I personally chose the 512gig myself for that reason and slapped in a 1tb sandisk extreme micro sd. Not hating just sharing.

3:15 name of keyboard brother thanks

Disagree. Sold two steam decks after playing games on the Ally which has better sound, 1080p, 120hz and variable refresh rate. All the games are made to run on windows so they all work on the Ally unlike the steam deck. I like the Ally screen better than the oled. Oh and the Ally is quieter.

I'm playing mario wonder and mario kart 8 on it with ma family, I recommend

Out of all the PC handhelds on the market, Valve is the only one that made an extremely well designed system Handhelds need a perfect balance betwee performance and battery. That's where the others fall short. The only thing they really have over the Steam Deck is overall performance. They're inferior in literally erry other possible way

The actually contracted boe to make the displays the only reason valve switched to Samsung is because Samsung is suing boe for stealing their tech and boe has been ordered to stop selling oled panels until the case is decided. And a lot of the first steam deck oleds actually came with boe panels especially the limited edition ones. They should all be Samsung moving forward though

I want whatever looks visually better and performs better. At medium setting minimum. I aint spending money to play on low setting.

5:14 Specifically the Samsung screen.

I picked the legion go because i have games on multiple platforms. Also i believe older gamer folks will appreciate the bigger screen because our eyesight is shite 😂

Sorry to hear that you got rid of the ally

its the same Oled as the switch. what do you mean it's better? lol

All tech channel sounds the same now. They have to say gorgeous, premium, pop, beautiful, and Dbrand lol

i also got the 1tb limited edition oled it looks so good in person, these come with the BOE display that can be overclocked to 120 hz 😎 i heard those pixel issues only occurred on the Samsung displays tho not the BOE displays

If you are looking for a gaming handheld, buy a steamdeck oled. If you are looking for a portable gaming pc just buy…. A gaming laptop kekw

Its a gaming console device but performance sucks

I don’t believe anything about the Steam Deck anymore. I was thinking about getting one because all of the reviews loved it so much even the screen, battery life and console experience. Now the OLED comes out and it fixes all these issues that reviewers said were great before. It makes no sense to me and turned me off so I bought an Ally.

Just say you got baby hands bro.....Leigon Go all day...

the steam deck Oled is heavier than the rog ally though...

Would've been the one for me if it didn't have a garbage ass 800p screen., I have a Switch and 720p looks like ass.

ur hands are really big it looks like a switch lite on you 😂

I'm sorry dude but you're definitely WRONG WITH YOUR DECISION... THE STEAM DECK OLED is NOT THE BEST of the Three. You can't even play Call of Duty games or Destiny 2. Because of the anti cheat. That's a deal breaker for me. Don't get me wrong, I love Steam Deck, it's an awesome system but when you're unable to play certain games on the deck that's a no go for me. I have the legion go and I absolutely love it. 8.8 screen size and I can play ALL OF MY GAMES. Including Call of Duty and Destiny 2 and many others.

i would never trade my rog ally or legion go for a steam deck!

After owning all three now for a week. ROG ally and Legion go are going back to best buy. The Steam Deck OLED is the best handled out of the 3.

screen is great colors very beautiful but the performance is bad compared to rog ally

Same old Same old, when the next generation of handheld come out, he would said that would be the best handheld out there!

Yeah, the steam deck is by far the worst of those 3, the other 2 blow the steamdeck out the water when it comes to power, they can play at 1080p, the ally has VRR, the lenovo actually goes up to 1660, I cant see any reason to buy a steam deck over a switch oled if you want to play at 30fps 720p (wich is the same at 800p dont delude yourself)

You are liar! 1:43 SD OLED 640g; SD OLED LE 620-622g; ROG Ally 608g

Asus ROG Ally is better for sure.

U like an only 800p capable , steam games only handheld is totally ok , don’t belittle other machines kiddo😂

Steamdeck is a garbage handheld! 😂