I’m gonna get downvoted to oblivion for this…
I just got my new OLED and weirdly enough, upon booting it I saw something that I didn’t even think of till now. With the new OLED, the sub-pixel arrangement is slightly different than the LCD, and it’s causing white edge (specially on text) to have this green/magenta fringing. It’s extremely faint, and it’s not particular to the Steam Deck since I know of other OLED panels that have the same fringing. However I have heard zero mention of this and I have to say that although this matters close to nothing while playing videogames, it’s something I do see with subtitles.
With this out of the way, the screen looks amazing and I’m more than ready to sell and replace my LCD deck now. I hope the technology gets there where this isn’t an issue anymore!
Text does look bad on this. I assumed it was cause of the low res. Good to know.
I’ve played through a few games since getting the OLED and felt the exact opposite. As in it was noticeably better than the LCD variant. I’ll be on the lookout for this going forward.
While I haven’t done a direct comparison to the LCD since getting the OLED, I recall text on the LCD being horribad and one of the first things I noticed was not straining to read on the OLED.
IIRC I played these for at least an hour: