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

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

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Post by Closi »

Phiwise_ wrote: post #18

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…

> 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.

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

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Post by skinner927 »

Phiwise_ wrote: post #18

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…

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.

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

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Post by cladopa »

Phiwise_ wrote: post #18

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…

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

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Post by Dalewyn »

cladopa wrote: post #23
Phiwise_ wrote: post #18

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…

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

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

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Post by NikolaNovak »

Phiwise_ wrote: post #18

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…

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.

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

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Post by andybak »

Dalewyn wrote: post #24
cladopa wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

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Post by zachromorp »

Phiwise_ wrote: post #18

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…

This comment doesn't pass my Turing test

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

andybak wrote: post #27
Dalewyn wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

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.

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

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Post by resource_waste »

You just wonder what the would would be like without Marketing.

Imagine we only had facts/specs of equipment in advertising, and all these people maliciously using your own psychology against you, had productive jobs where they contribute more resources/services to the world.

Steam is one of the good companies, but when I see this much effort go into marketing, it just makes me think of waste. There is poverty, environmental degradation, cancer... but hey: Look cool video to convince me to buy something.

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