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Why do they keep putting 1080p screens in the Steam Deck clones when they don't have enough GPU power to run most games in 1080p?
So that they can say they have a better screen on the marketing, because they know damn well the actual UX will be inferior, so they need a selling point
Battery life seems to suffer because of it.
It also makes the game look worse since you need to run it in 720p to get a playable frame rate, which requires non integer scaling on a 1080p screen. They could have gone with a 120Hz 720p OLED screen with variable refresh rate if they wanted a better screen than the Steam Deck for marketing reasons.
Yeah that's the other thing. To get decent battery life you run the device at lower TDP also, which puts performance as no better than the Steam deck.
Just seems to me that some of these decisions were driven by the marketing department and not engineering sense.
Boggles my mind. Some even have 1440p/1600p screens. At those size of a screen it is a negligible difference in picture quality when gaming.