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Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED for November 16th (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Cool, can we get a replacement part# for the screen, and can it be swapped into the original steam decks?

[–] cron@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago

I would be surprised if this would be possible. It seems that the revision is quite substantial.

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently the new OLED screen will be available through iFixit

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately Gamers Nexus has stated that new OLED screen will not be compatible with the old models. Perhaps there could be a third party solution though.

around 8:08

[–] HoloPengin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yep. They've said that basically no internal components are cross compatible between original and OLED steam decks. Everything's been redesigned internally

[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Valve employees have confirmed that the OLED display is incompatible with the LCD Deck's Mobo. So you can't upgrade just the screen.

[–] 0x49D1@hachyderm.io 5 points 10 months ago

@jayandp @Pistcow and this is OK, normal hardware iteration. Me with the old Deck is still satisfied, can play the same way the same things with same ergonomics. For new players - yes, the upgrade seems much better for the same price (no like Nintendo did, by the way).

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

can it be swapped into the original steam decks?

Doubt, a lot of the internals also changed by at least a bit

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

They already said that's a no unfortunately

[–] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the new deck's screen is bigger, so I doubt that it'll fit.

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

From the few pictures I've seen the screen looks bigger, but the bezels smaller, so it might even out, I hope so

Edit: same physical size but it's not compatible according to valve