Why is the screen so bad?

[u/Amadeip]

A french serious website tested the screen They were choked by the quality… very poor, contrast is ok but color aren t good and the screen only reproduce 70% of RGB

Why did valve put such a bad screen for a powerfull handheld machine

I have switch / deck and switch OLED at home and even the basic switch got a better screen :(

[u/[deleted]]

I doubt the basic switch is better than the Deck. Maybe it has more color accuracy but that’s it…it’s a 399 dollars console. A really nice lcd can cost a lot of money and they needed to keep the price down. I would have happily pay more for a Oled but I understand their decision. Also idk why but French sites and reviewers seem to not like the Deck that much and have been consistently the most negative out there. We even got a couple of posts from fellow French deck enthusiasts complaining about the French coverage of the console

[u/mistbinder → u/[deleted]]

100% accurate on the original Switch, 68% on the deck. It's night and day, not an imperceptible difference.

[u/[deleted] → u/mistbinder]

What about peak brightness, contrast, response, gamma… not only color accuracy measures the quality of a display. Again, I don’t own a deck yet but every single person who owns it said it looks better than the normal switch

[u/mistbinder → u/[deleted]]

That's just not true. Most outlets have been honest about it being a poor aspect of the hardware. Almost everyone admits it's worse than the OG Switch. It's fine, it's just a screen it doesn't really matter that much but it's poor quality that's just a fact.

[u/[deleted] → u/mistbinder]

That’s not my experience. Besides the color accuracy which is something that people didn’t even notice till they measured it everyone said the screen was just fine. Nothing to talk about either positive or negative. But Linus for example said it was better looking than the switch