Why I Regret Buying the Steam Deck

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

as you can see, I have my Steam Deck

inside of the protective carrier case,

and that is because unfortunately I think

I've come to the decision that I regret

buying the Steam Deck and I think I'm

going to sell it. Now, I originally bought

the Steam Deck because I'm planning to do

some traveling around Asia in the

beginning of October, and I needed a

gaming device that I could put in my

backpack and I could just carry around

with me and play some video games when I'm

bored. And I thought the Steam Deck would

be really great for that because it allows

me to play PC games that I can't play on

my Switch Lite. So this is my Switch Lite,

and in comparison to the Steam Deck, you

can see how insanely big the Steam Deck

is. Now I don't have very big hands, but

if you want to use my hands as a reference

to see how big the Steam Deck is, it is

just really big and bulky. It's okay if

you're at home, but I don't really want to

be putting this inside of my backpack when

I can just chuck this into my backpack,

job done, easy peasy. This thing doesn't

weigh a thing, and it's got some pretty

good games on it. It might not have every

single game that's on Steam, but it's got

quite a good collection of games on the

Switch Lite. And I feel like I'd just

rather have the Switch Lite. This thing is

so weightless. Look, I could lift it with

one finger compared to the Steam Deck

where it's just kind of heavy, kind of

bulky. There's no way I would even try to

one-finger this thing because it's just

bit of a beast of a machine. So this is my

backpack that I'm planning to take with me

to Asia, and as you can see, when I close

the Steam Deck into its protective carrier

case and I put it

next to my backpack, it's actually very

big compared to my backpack. It's like a

third, um, this way horizontally,

it's a third of the size of my backpack.

And then vertically, it is one,

two, a third of the vertical length of my

backpack. So when I put it into my

backpack, look how much space it takes up

in my backpack. It takes up so much space

in my backpack. It's so big. And compared

to the Switch Lite where I can just slot

it in there, look, you can't even see the

Switch Lite. The Switch Lite just kind of

disappears into my backpack and then you

can't even see it anymore. But the Steam

Deck is so bulky and already, oh, I can

feel it's pretty hefty and weighty, and I

don't even have my other things in my

backpack yet, like my laptop and my

tablet. It just feels way better to have

this Switch Lite in my backpack in

case I want to do some quick on-the-go

gaming. So my other problem with the Steam

Deck has to be the price. So I was a bit

silly and I decided to buy the most

expensive version of the Steam Deck,

which in hindsight is not really

necessary. So there's different models of

the Steam Deck. There's the cheapest

version, which only has about 120

gigabytes of storage, I think. And then

you got the mid-range version, which has

about 250 gigabytes of storage. And then I

decided to buy the most expensive version,

which has 512 gigabytes of storage. And

that cost me about £565 compared to this

Switch Lite, which only costs about £200

when I bought it from release. I think it

came out in 2019, which is when I bought

it. And the reason why it's kind of silly

to buy the most expensive version of the

Steam Deck for the storage is because you

can actually put in an SD card. All you

needed to buy was a £20— is it £20 or

maybe £100? Uh, 1TB SD card and put it in

there and then you would have boosted your

storage by 10 times and you wouldn't have

had to spend the extra, what, £200 on the

bigger version of the Steam Deck? I mean,

not the physically bigger version, the

bigger storage version. So my other

problem with the Steam Deck is although it

can play PC games, which is great and

everything, I don't know why you would

want to be playing so many hardcore PC

games when you're traveling. For example,

I'm going to go to Thailand October. Am I

really going to be sitting around at home

playing video games all day when I should

be exploring the country, seeing what it's

all about, enjoying the food and the

people and the culture, and trying to get

new memories and experiences in life? I

don't really see why I would want to be

sat around playing some kind of dedicated

PC game when I really should be doing

other things in my life at this stage. I

just kind of regret buying it now, and I

really don't see myself playing a lot of

PC games when I'm out and about traveling,

and I don't really want to sacrifice so

much storage space in my backpack just for

this big thing when I'll probably not

really use it a lot. So unfortunately,

I'm going to have to decide not to bring

it with me to Thailand, and I think I'll

just go with the Switch Lite. I might not

even bring the Switch Lite, to be honest,

because I'm not actually playing a lot of

video games these days. I feel like I'm at

a stage of my life where video games are

just something you do when you don't have

anything better to do. If I had more

interesting things in life to do, I'd

rather be doing that or trying to be more

productive It's just when I've got nothing

to do and I can't think of anything to do

and I've done all my chores and done all

of my little tasks I need to do, I don't

really have anything else to be filling my

time with, and that's when I play video

games. I'm trying to change that habit of

mine, and hopefully traveling again will

give me more things to do, and that means

I won't really need a dedicated PC gaming

handheld device. Also, again, the battery

life— I'm not really that impressed with

it. It lasts about an hour. And I don't

know anyone who only plays games for an

hour. For example, if you're stuck in an

airport or on an aeroplane, 1 hour of

gaming is pretty rubbish. And where are

you going to plug this in to charge it?

You could bring some power banks, and I do

have some power banks here. I've got these

2 power banks that I Velcroed together.

This one doesn't really charge the Steam

Deck because it's too low of a wattage.

It only has like, um, it's like 10 watts

or a 15-watt or 20-watt charger for mobile

phones and tablets. And it does charge the

Steam Deck, but very, very slowly. You

cannot play the game whilst charging it

with this at the same time because you'll

just drain the battery faster than it

charges. So I got this chunkier, beefy

battery bank which says 100 watts. So this

is actually for laptops and more powerful

devices. You need at least a charger that

has at least a 40-watt power outage so it

has enough power to charge the Steam Deck

because it's quite a beefy machine. And

even with this big thing, I think it's

about 26,000 milliamps But in reality, it

only has about 15 or 16,000 milliamps of

actual chargeable electricity inside of

it that can be stored. Because when I did

my testing, um, with this plugged in, the

big one plugged into the Steam Deck whilst

playing Hitman 3 for hours and hours,

this thing drained so quickly. It drained

my battery bank in about 3 hours.

So you got 1 hour from the Steam Deck's

battery and then 3 additional hours from

this big fat battery bank. So you got

about a total of nearly 4 hours of total

gameplay. I mean, you could buy another 2

of these and then you could triple your

battery life to like 9 hours or 12 hours,

but you're really going to carry 3 of

these? It already weighs a ton, so I'm

gonna have to carry all this plus this.

This is like— oh, it's like a laptop. The

weight of this is so heavy, it's like 2

kilograms. And as someone who likes to

travel light, this is really killing my,

my travel light backpack and my setup.

This is really going to hurt my shoulders

and my back when I'm out and about, and

when I'm going from hotel to hotel and

getting on trains and going hiking and

stuff, I really don't want to be lugging

this around. Look how heavy that is!

When in comparison, you could probably get

like 12 hours of battery life from the

Switch Lite just using this tiny smaller

battery bank. I still have to bring the

battery bank because I'm going to need

battery juice for my phones and stuff,

but I'd rather just not have to bring this

with it when I probably won't

realistically use it a lot. I don't really

see myself using it a lot because, for

example, when you're traveling in airports

and you're on planes, you're usually very

tired and stressed out because now you've

got to sit on an airplane for 10 or 12

hours straight and it's going to be really

uncomfortable and unpleasant. It's not

really the kind of atmosphere or

environments that you want to sit back,

relax, and have a good time playing video

games. It's kind of a situation

environment where you just want to put

your heads between your knees and cry and

just pray that this stupid plane journey

is going to be over soon. I just feel like

I'm going to be too stressed out to be

able to enjoy any kind of video games,

and I won't even take this out of the bag

really. I'm just going to try and shut my

eyes and try to fall asleep. So I think I

kind of made a mistake buying this for the

purposes of traveling and gaming at the

same time, and I think I'm gonna sell it

on eBay,