“Out of the box, the Steam Deck’s screen will default to portrait.”

PS5 Pro - only marginally better than an option that’s only $450.

Steam Deck OLED - only marginally better than an option that’s only $300.

I heard all the controversy about Dustborn and picked up the free demo, it’s a decent little Telltale style game.

I thought Nintendo shut that down? Or was that just Switch emulation?

Yeah, the MicroSD slot is around 100mb/s:

https://www.polygon.com/deals/22938610/steam-deck-best-sd-card-micro-storage-price-speed

USB-C is anywhere from 5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. Not sure what standard the Deck supports, but even the slowest is 625 to 2500 mb/s.

The Call of Duty franchise is one of the biggest games going. PUBG Battlegrounds is huge, so is Destiny 2.

I use a 2TB Kingston SSD through the USB-C port. All the Steam Deck stuff stays on the internal drive, Windows 11 on the Kingston.

https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/xs2000-portable-usb-c-solid-state-drive

There are also docks that support NVMe:

https://jsaux.com/products/m-2-docking-station-for-steam-deck-hb0604

That’s… that’s a lot of games.

https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=fixWanted

As far as I’m aware, all Steam Decks can dual boot. On my machine you hold volume down on power on to access the boot manager.

I didn’t partition the internal drive because I wanted to preserve the original install, so I boot from the external SSD for Win 11.

Some games have security software that requires Windows. Destiny 2 for example.

Some games have security software that requires Windows. Destiny 2 for example.

Weird that the drivers are that dramatically different for the OLED version.

The standard Steam Deck Windows drivers have been out for ages, I have a Win11 external SSD and it works fine.

Xbox Remote Play already works on the Steam Deck and Android devices. Not sure on iOS, I haven’t tried that, but I’ve personally run it on my Android tablet and Steam Deck.

Or, you know, just connect the Steam Deck to the television…

I guess the problem is looking at your picture on my LCD smart phone. :)

I can tell the machine on the left is the OLED version because the screen is just a touch bigger.