Day one buy when it’s available in my region. My original steam controller was amazing until the wireless adapter crapped out (plus its Bluetooth mode was not great, sadly) and the A button membrane broke. I even tuned that fucking thing to play 2d platformers competently, let alone shooters with gyro aim. I missed it.

My Steam Deck has been rock solid and I’ve wanted something with an identical layout for my PC and docked Deck since it released. I can’t wait

Seems neat, though I don’t have a use for it.

It’d be much more helpful to me if it just used those OCR boxes to provide mouse-over dictionary lookups via yomitan rather than a translation.

Right now I use Google Lens for that, but that means I’m sharing selected text into a dictionary app or chatgpt, or gambling on Google search just giving me the JP->EN definition with no prompting besides the word itself.

The only thing I dislike about it, having seen the in-store demos, is the fringing on text and hard edges. It can looks like chromatic abberation in very contrasty games. The OLED subpixel layout just isn’t quite ideal, especially at 1280x800 7.4".

The LCD version has less issues there. Less gaps between the pixels and a standard RGB vertical strip layout.

That’s not wild speculation, just normal speculation. It’d also maybe possible that the refreshed sephiroth chip that’s also been found recently could be used in both a deck refresh and deckard.

Valve does tend to re-use hardware between different products when it makes sense anyways. The watchman dongle for SteamVR controller data was just a Steam Controller dongle. You can actually flash the firmwares between each.