I am considering buying a steam deck, but as I live in New Zealand I’m having to pay high import fees (~$1300 NZD total) so I want to be sure on a few things before I pull the trigger.

  1. Can the steam deck have multiple bluetooth connections at once? From my understanding if I had an xbox controller connected via bt, the audio jack doesn’t work, so would I be able to bypass this by having a bluetooth headset connected to SD at the same time as the controller?

  2. Do I need a dock to connect the steam deck to the TV? I have heard that it can be connected with a USB-C to hdmi adapter, but would the battery drain if it was connected this way?

  3. Is oled worth waiting ~2 months for? It seems like the earliest it will be available in my country is in mid January, and since I will probably be playing it on the tv most of the time I’m not too worried about the screen itself, but I’ve seen it does have some nice features like wake via Bluetooth controller.

Thank you for taking the time to read my questions any answers would be greatly appreciated :)

  • JonesCat_55BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I got the 256gb lcd version on October 6th from parallel imported - it’s fantastic, I paid $1170NZD and am very happy with this machine. The OLED has some nice feature updates and I may upgrade when I can get one from a local reseller (then they are my point of contact for warranty) but I can recommend the LCD as it is what we can get for now.

    I am glad to be playing games on the couch or in the car for the next few months rather than waiting, and despite the hugely inflated prices we pay it is still worth the money.

    1 - don’t know haven’t tried

    2 - same

    3 - maybe, but then no steam deck right now…