I don’t do much handheld gaming, but I’m going to have some overseas flights and long-ish train rides later this year, and may also be having surgery that will keep me fairly bedbound for about a month. I’m just not sure how much money it’s worth spending on a deck that I likely won’t use much outside of those specific cases - I bought a switch when I got covid in 2020 and used it a ton at the time but I’ve only used it a few times since, though I miiight use a deck a bit more just because I already have a pretty extensive steam library.

Is it better to stick to the cheapest model or is there enough of a difference that it might be worth spending a little more for a nicer one?

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I just got my OLED model, and I would get a 512GB version of either type at minimum. You’ll be able to install several things before worrying about SD cards, and you can always upgrade the drive later.

    As far as I’ve read, the battery life in-game sometimes is better, sometimes is about the same, but the screen and the weight are both improved over the LCD version. It’s otherwise pretty much the same. I like OLED and have a few games with HDR, so I’m glad I sprung for the newer model.

    I was in a similar boat and thought I would use it on occasion, but I haven’t played a game on my beefy desktop thus far, not even to stream a title. It’s super convenient to just pick this up and play in the short moments between doing other things, and I’ve read about other people who bought some for their kids as a replacement for a laptop.

    When you throw in tinkering around to add Epic, Amazon, and Gog games via Heroic Launcher, there’s a massive and relatively cheap ecosystem of games you wouldn’t be able to access on a more closed console.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I got the 64gb from the wait-list which ended the day before it arrived in the mail. I put in an aftermarket 1tb nvme 2230 and the tiny emmc thing is in my router now. At the time that I did it, I believe the ifixit guide suggested peeling off the foil shield thing but I just slid it off and on to the new one without unwrapping it. It was pretty easy but if you haven’t taken many things apart, just get one of the bigger models. There are a number of annoyances with just 64gb and that model totally existed just for people like me apart from having a drive at all, which is probably so people don’t cluelessly buy one with no drive and complain.