When it comes to electronics, I’ve never once gone “Man, why did I get the largest size?” :)

If you can afford it, get the 1TB OLED. It’s only $100 more.

$400 for 256
$55O for 512 - +$150 for 256GB is $0.59 per GB?
$650 for 1TB - +$100 for 512GB or $0.195 per GB. If you compare it to the base model, that’s +$250 for 744GB or $0.336 per GB.

What size would you recommend ?

Whatever size matters. I ended up buying a 512 GB with 512gb micro SD. I have like three games that take up 100GB (Elden Ring, Witcher 3, and some other game I forget), and like fifty indie games.

What’s the battery like when running games or watching movies ?

Depends. It’s like a laptop, and depends what you’re doing.

I play Elden Ring while it’s plugged into my dock + wall outlet, so it’s on the big TV. If I played it while portable, it’ll last like 1.5 hours.

Where I can play Vampire Survivors or many 2D metroidvanias for like 4 hours.

Any gotcha moments when running a deck?

Be careful because if you’re like me, you might no longer build gaming PCs ever again.

I say that and honestly, most graphic intensive games don’t look great on Steam Deck. Like Cyberpunk looks great on a mid-level gaming PC where it looks like Lowres muddy blurs on Steam Deck. But if you never knew how it originally looked, you might not complain.