In my opinion no. Just get either a desktop in the same price range as that will vastly outperform the deck in performance while giving a better gaming experience on a larger screen. Deck should be bought mainly for handheld gaming, which is where it excels, just like the other PC handhelds.

The difference in display quality between the LCD Deck and the OLED deck is far larger than between the ROG Ally LCD and OLED deck. The old LCD on the Deck really was not a good panel and it had poor color accuracy and a low gamut making games look dull. The Ally has a high refresh rate 120hz panel with pretty good response times and better contrast than the original LCD deck. Sure it’s no OLED but the gap isn’t as large between them.

Now which you should get is really subjective. Both have their merits and downsides. The Deck OLED has much better battery life while the Ally has access to more games and other windows based software. Deck is set up for gaming first and foremost so you launch automatically into Steam Big Picture, Ally does not and launches into Asus’s Armory crate software. Ally can however be customized to launch into whatever program you want at boot up like Steam big picture.

Playing games via other launchers is much easier on Ally so if you own games from Ubisoft, EA, Epic, or other stores, you’ll have an easier time. Sometimes updates to these launchers will break games in Steam OS and it sucks.

Multiplayer games, or games with Anti cheat all just work on Ally while on Steam deck it can be a hit or miss whether it works. Some games just won’t launch on steamOS either, however thankfully we do have tools to help with this. ProtonDB is an excellent community run site that tells you whether a game works or not. You can pretty much ignore Steam’s playability rating as whether a game is “Great on Deck” or “Unsupported” really means nothing as many “unsupported” games work fine.

Once the 3D era hit 30fps became common. Heck even the PS1 and N64 has its fair share of 20fps games as well. I’d say the current generation and the 6th generation have the highest percentage of 60fps 3D games. 5th, 7th, and 8th generation have a ton of 30fps games

It’s a handheld PC, it’s focused on efficiency not pure power. If you want pure power get a gaming laptop or desktop PC. I don’t care if this is PC gaming, everyone still has different standards. You are expecting way too much power in a portable system

Considering how you get them it’s either you dump them yourself or you find them by other means.

How much you can undervolt is down to the silicon lottery. Some people have better luck than others

I think the issue with 24fps content is the 3/2 pull down happening at 60hz and combined with OLED’s faster response times meaning the judder is hidden on LCDs

Yes it will work

I’d say probably at next year’s summer sale at the earliest

Most games have a toggle setting for HDR in it so this really shouldn’t be an issue. Turn it off in settings for the games that support it

Both Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass have very heavy use of the touchscreen. You will need to touch it

That’s going to be based off a per game basis. Some games will need more and others will require much less

Really depends on how you want to play your games. PS5 is going to make games look much prettier than on the Deck. Deck is actually portable though.

Performance wise the Steam deck cannot even come close to the PS5. The PS5’s GPU is around RTX 2070 Super/ AMD RX 6650 levels of performance while the Steam deck is closer to a GTX 1050. When playing on the big screen PS5 is the clear winner. PS5 is also simpler to use as it’s an actual console so no trouble shooting or having games that won’t work.

Steam deck however with the batter means you can easily take it anywhere regardless of internet or place. Has access to a bigger library thanks to steam’s 20 years worth of games on the PC side

So it’s really how do you want to play. On the TV or in your hands with a handheld.

Both decks are exactly the same size. Weight is lower than the original. You do realize you can look at these stats on the steam deck page on Valve’s site

The Lego games are great fun

You probably don’t have your price low enough. That could be the reason

Try repairing and verifying the files of each games

I do really like Battlefront 2 (2017). Never played the old titles from the 6th generation

Yes you can clone it. Get clonezilla and make sure your deck is updated to the latest version. That will allow you to swap the drive. Also be warned that you will need Torx screws to get into the OLED Deck

Nope it’s not even close to the worst dpad. My least favorite D-pad by far is the Xbox 360 one. If you haven’t used it, it’s garbage. I think it’s fine but also the switch’s base 4 buttons is worse too since it’s not a dpad