Just got the 512gb oled steam deck delivered today. I noticed that the down on the Dpad is “clickier” than the other directions, almost like a hard plastic sound but without the feeling. The down button can be pressed into a “half press” state that the other directions can’t, and that it doesn’t always register, to a degree that it’s often causing misclicks. Anyone else notice or have this, or experienced this on the older lcd models? If so, any fixes? It also seems to happen more when the dpad is “slid” down. You might need to volume up with the video.
Actually, having played around with it more, it only seems to happen when the dpad is “slid” down more within the steam deck shell cutout. Pretty easy to do though with just casual use.
I’ve also noticed that the a, b, x, y face buttons are a lot more rattly/looser than my previous lcd model.
I normally don’t have an issue with opening up the device to replace parts etc. But when opening up this new oled model the pull tab on the battery cable separated from the plastic head and the head is really stiff/stuck in there. So unfortunately rather than risk it with a new device that can be returned, I contacted valve to try and start an rma. We’ll see, it’s unfortunate since the screen doesn’t have any of the dead pixel problems that some other people are reporting, if it wasn’t for this one thing I’m on the fence on, I’d probably keep it.