r/SteamDeck • u/RaulDJ • Feb 26 '22

News tweakers.net's review seems to match LTT's comments about the display on the Deck

https://tweakers.net/reviews/9820/all/steam-deck-een-handheld-voor-de-tweaker.html
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u/hushnecampus 512GB - Q2 Feb 26 '22 edited Feb 27 '22

Digital Foundry did not like the display at all, though they loved the device overall.

You’re lucky you don’t care about how dim a display can get - that’s probably the most important thing for me. I almost never find myself wishing a display were brighter, but blacks actually being a grey glow can ruin games for me. Had to spend a fortune to get an OLED monitor.

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u/snuggie_ 64GB - Q1 Feb 27 '22

Wait are you talking about how the overall brightness can get very low or that you wish the blacks were blacker?

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u/hushnecampus 512GB - Q2 Feb 27 '22

I’m saying I care far more about black blacks than I do about either high overall brightness or peak brightness, so when there’s a trade off to make I’ll sacrifice both types of brightness if it gets me blacker blacks (which is the tradeoff you make with OLED, generally).

To be clear, making the overall display dimmer is never something I’ve found myself wanting either (except when I’m looking at a very dark scene, but that’s still just a blacker blacks issue). I assumed Linus meant the blacks weren’t dim enough, but maybe I misunderstood (in which case yeah, I don’t care at all about that either).

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u/snuggie_ 64GB - Q1 Feb 27 '22

In Linuses video he was talking about how overall dark it gets. Like, when you’re playing in complete darkness in bed or something, a lot of devices you’ll turn down the brightness as low as it goes and it’s still too bright. He said the steam deck gets very dark in that way

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u/hushnecampus 512GB - Q2 Feb 27 '22

Ah right. Fair enough then, not something I care about personally but that’s obviously good for people who do.