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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That thumbnail has a Deck with a clear plastic shell piece. Please let this be another era of clear plastic electronics. GBA purple would be welcomed.

[–] Zeta616@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Limited edition that's only available in US & Canada with limited stock

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Don't valve release 3D models of all their parts to make it easier to swap them out/make your own?

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They literally fixed every problem I had with the Deck and more.

Really tempted to sell mine and upgrade.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does no one else really want multiple USB ports?

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen a few people wanting another usb-c port. It would be neat, but personally as long as they keep the headphone jack, I’m happy with the one port. I just want to charge and listen to stuff at the same time, which I can do on the Deck unlike most modern phones.

[–] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, does that mean we can start looking at HDR displays for regular Linux desktops in a near future?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, Valve started working on that about a year ago or so. I think it's already available in the current Steam Deck software for external monitors. Valve's involvement has been great for Linux.

[–] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sheesh~ This kind of makes me dream of seeing a future Steam Deck (Or other Valve console) powerful enough to handle most VR games if they're going to keep on giving the Linux ecosystem a push for whatever features are important to them.

[–] money_loo@1337lemmy.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy for everyone else but I just got mine like a year ago! Fuckity fuck fuck!

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too but I had a lot of fun the past few months 💁

[–] jpeps@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah same here, I've only had mine a few months but I'm having a blast with it and don't see why that has to change just because there's something a bit nicer out there.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Cool, can we get a replacement part# for the screen, and can it be swapped into the original steam decks?

[–] cron@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

I would be surprised if this would be possible. It seems that the revision is quite substantial.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently the new OLED screen will be available through iFixit

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately Gamers Nexus has stated that new OLED screen will not be compatible with the old models. Perhaps there could be a third party solution though.

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[–] HoloPengin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. They've said that basically no internal components are cross compatible between original and OLED steam decks. Everything's been redesigned internally

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[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Valve employees have confirmed that the OLED display is incompatible with the LCD Deck's Mobo. So you can't upgrade just the screen.

[–] 0x49D1@hachyderm.io 5 points 1 year ago

@jayandp @Pistcow and this is OK, normal hardware iteration. Me with the old Deck is still satisfied, can play the same way the same things with same ergonomics. For new players - yes, the upgrade seems much better for the same price (no like Nintendo did, by the way).

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

can it be swapped into the original steam decks?

Doubt, a lot of the internals also changed by at least a bit

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They already said that's a no unfortunately

[–] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the new deck's screen is bigger, so I doubt that it'll fit.

[–] orthen@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cool! Though I'm wondering that they didn't update the APU from Zen2+RDNA2 to Zen4-RDNA3.

[–] Byter@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

They have said they want to keep a fairly long-term performance target for game devs optimizing for the device. Consoles do the same thing. Another part of that is improving margins over time.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

Component cost, engineering cost, and it would change the performance target which could cause some devs to leave the old one behind

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

None of the currently available RDNA3 APUs are good within their 5-15W target. They could custom design a smaller one but that would increase costs a lot and the perf benefits aren't that big when still limited by LPDDR5

[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

If only I could even get the original in my country (New Zealand) 😔

[–] cpw@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I have the original 512. I'm going to have that custom shell. I am a sucker for consumption.. I must consume..

Steam deck is the coolest piece of tech I own. Maybe I need two now lol.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! I was thinking about buying a deck, I'll wait for the new one, thanks for the news!