Elgato’s Stream Deck Plus Xl Has More Buttons, More Dials, And A Larger Touchscreen

After supersizing its Stream Deck controller into a product designed for master broadcast environments successful 2024, Elgato is giving a akin curen to nan three-year-old Stream Deck Plus. The caller Stream Deck Plus XL is fundamentally nan aforesaid merchandise arsenic nan original, but pinch much macro buttons, much dials, a wider touchscreen, and a bigger footprint. It’s besides $150 much expensive. The original Stream Deck Plus is still $199.99, while nan caller XL type is $349.99.

The original Stream Deck Plus had less buttons than nan standard Stream Deck but offered expanded functionality done 4 further dial controls and a touchscreen supra them. The surface showed nan functions mapped to each of those knobs, but they could besides beryllium utilized arsenic buttons, successful summation to different functionality. Instead of conscionable triggering individual functions, nan dials allowed precise adjustments to beryllium made to settings for illustration measurement aliases gain.

The caller Stream Deck Plus XL has nan aforesaid LCD buttons pinch membrane switches arsenic nan smaller version, but 36 of them alternatively of conscionable eight. It besides has 2 further dials, bringing nan full to six, and a touchscreen that stretches crossed each nan knobs. It will gobble up a small much desktop space, but if you request much than 15 buttons, nan Stream Deck Plus XL will springiness you much than doubly arsenic galore while taking up acold little abstraction than daisy-chaining a brace of standard Stream Decks.