Even with native support, some games have idiotic controls and no remapping. Steams custom controller profiles give me a chance to remedy this.

Got the original not long after launch. Upgraded to OLED right around when it launched. I have some times when I don’t play it, but not often. Recently I have even been playing some RTS games since I got the controls working fairly effectively. Some of the fun for me with the Deck is customizing the controls to make a game work that otherwise wouldn’t. The Steam controller settings are in my opinion probably the most important feature that makes this work so well.

Many games I used to play on my Playstation I am now instead playing them natively on Deck. It’s comfortable. I love handheld.

The game I’ve played most overall is American Truck Simulator. Also Vampite Survivor, tons of Emulation Station, Metal Gear Solid master collecetion, and more recently Halo MCC, and Warhammer games like Dawn of War 1, Space Marine, and Inquisitor.

Apparently I played over 75 hours in May. PlayTime Decky plugin.

In addition to battery life, colors, and screen size that others have mentioned, I think the weight reduction on OLED when I upgraded was actually the biggest thing that shocked me.

It’s not immensely different, but if you use it daily, it’s lighter enough than the original model to make a noticeable difference and just makes playing so much more comfortable, especially for longer periods.

I would not have expected the weight reduction to be this big a deal, but it really is for me.

The least productive Congress since the Great Depression? The same Congress who couldn’t pass a budget for the government until 6 months into the very fiscal year it’s for? That Congress? Priorities.

VPNs see everything you do, and you pay them for it. I don’t understand how people don’t see the irony there.

Sony certainly are morons about device naming.

Sony’s own PS Remote Play app has always been garbage. Even on PC, on phones, on anything. I never had faith they’d improve it for Portal. Sony has only disappointed me nonstop since 2011. Steam has only continued to win me over time and time again.

I think the combined improvements is game changing. It all runs longer, cooler, lighter, larger screen and brighter, and the screw changes for improved repairability is huge.

I’d like to add tacos to the conversation.

The only thing I wish they had done is an OLED screen.

Not in my experience. I’ve never had a Hitachi that didn’t fail, and almost every WD I’ve ever had failed. Never had an issue with Seagate or Samsung before.

That’s the joke.

There was a time I’d avoid Western Digital cause everything they made fails, and I mostly leaned toward SanDisk cause they were very reliable, and well, my avoidance list got larger.