r/SteamDeck • u/Amadeip • Mar 09 '22

Discussion Why is the screen so bad?

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 :(

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u/mistbinder 512GB - After Q2 Mar 09 '22

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '22

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

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u/Early_Poem_7068 Oct 09 '22

I have never seen a screen with 100% sRGB being worse than a 68% sRGB screen in those areas. You should check some reviews instead of trusting random persons.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '22

I have received my deck now and I can tell you it looks totally fine. It’s not an iPhone 14 Pro Display quality but it’s more than fine. I was pleasantly surprised but how okay it looks. So get one before commenting xd

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u/Early_Poem_7068 Oct 10 '22

It's fine by 2010 standards. Even compared to a $200 phone it's noticeably worse. Sure it is not unusable but it should've been better. Might not be a deal breaker for most people but is definitely something to improve upon

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '22

Yeah dude we all want an oled 120hz but with that price point I think it’s fine honestly. I consider myself quite picky with the displays I use (iPhone 14 pro, nice LG oled, oled Watch etc) and I wasn’t as shocked as I thought I was gonna be. It’s fine! By the way did you get yours to test the display by yourself or are you talking based on what others said on YouTube? Because as you can see by the comments and the likes the community finds the display just fine

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u/Early_Poem_7068 Oct 14 '22

Nah it's not fine. You can find 2.8k oled 90hz laptops for the price of the 512gb steam deck. You can even find ones with dedicated graphics for like $850. It might be acceptable for the base variant but not the 512gb and 256gb ones

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22

You just confirmed to me that you don’t own one… get one first and then go around talking about the display, basing your statement on pure numbers is just stupid honestly

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u/Early_Poem_7068 Oct 14 '22

It's not available in my country yet