Why I Regret Selling my Steam Deck

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So as

some of you may know, I sold my Steam Deck

a couple months ago because it had come to

my conclusion that the Switch OLED that I

have here is superior to the Steam Deck,

and I decided to choose this as my

traveling gaming handheld console over the

Steam Deck. Well, it's been a couple

months now, I'm now in Thailand, and it's

come to my new conclusion that I don't

know if it was the best decision that I've

ever made to sell the Steam Deck, and I'm

not really getting a lot of use out of the

Switch OLED, mainly because The games I

want to play are not even on the Switch

OLED in the first place. I guess it's kind

of ironic because I sold the Steam Deck

and then I got the Switch OLED, which I

don't use anymore. But then I brought my

gaming laptop, my 17-inch pro gamer Razer

Blade laptop with RTX 3060 graphics card.

I brought that with me in my backpack,

which is way bigger than the Steam Deck

and way heavier. But I put it into my

backpack anyway because I thought I might

get bored. I might want to do some PC

gaming. And I decided to do the PC gaming

on my gaming laptop instead of the Steam

Deck. It turns out that the laptop is

really big and really heavy, and I've had

to put the laptop into my backpack, take

it out of my backpack about 6 or 7 times

so far that I've been in Thailand for

nearly 2 months. And after moving around

from different hotels to hotels, having to

take the laptop and put it into my

backpack and take it back out of my

backpack over and over again has been kind

of frustrating and cumbersome. I'm

starting to think that things may have

been a lot easier if I just didn't buy the

Switch OLED, which I barely use now, and I

didn't bring my big hefty gaming laptop.

And if I just kept the Steam Deck, that

would have solved both problems. It would

have killed two stones with one bird. I

would have had a powerful PC-capable

gaming device that can play PC games,

unlike the stupid Switch OLED, which can

only play lame stuff like Mario or

Pokémon, which I never play those games

because I'm an adult. I like my adult

games that have violence and shooting and

gore. I don't really like these stupid

kiddie games like Zelda and Mario and

Luigi. I'm not a 10-year-old kid anymore,

so those types of games don't really

appeal to me. The kind of games I want to

play is stuff like Cyberpunk and Modern

Warfare 2 and Call of Duty and Rainbow Six

Siege. And those games would have been

fine to play on the Steam Deck, so I could

have just brought the Steam Deck, that

kind of small device which isn't that big

compared to a big gaming laptop. Now that

I look back at my video where I complained

about the Steam Deck, most of the

complaints I made in that video were kind

of silly. For example, I was talking about

how it's too big to fit in my backpack,

but it's at least a quarter of the size of

my gaming laptop, which is actually very

hard to fit into my backpack. I have to

take out a lot of stuff to even get it to

fit inside of my backpack and have to

sacrifice being able to take a lot of

clothing with me. Only able to bring some

underwear, some socks, a couple t-shirts,

and maybe one pair of trousers. I have get

rid of because I've come here and I bought

some new clothing and I stupidly brought a

thick winter sweater with me because it

was cold when I left England to come to

the airport. I brought that with me

thinking I might use it in Thailand,

which I never use because it's way too hot

and I just have to wear t-shirts. I now

have to think about ditching some clothing

because I can't fit it into my backpack

because it's got all this stuff in it

like, um, laptop chargers, the power

brick, my laptop, my Switch OLED, and then

other things like this microphone and my

filming gear. I originally thought it

would be annoying gaming on a tiny Steam

Deck screen because the screen is so small

and it'd be better to play on a 17-inch

gaming laptop. But now I'm in an apartment

where we actually have a really big TV,

and I could have easily gotten a cheap

HDMI cable and just connected the Steam

Deck into the TV and then basically turn

the Steam Deck into kind of like a

couch-based controller-based console that

plays PC games. That would have been

literally the best of both worlds because

I'd have a big screen, plus I'd have PC

games, plus I would have the portability

and the functionality of a PC but in the

form factor of a very small gadget. It

could have done so many more things that

the Switch OLED cannot do, and it could

have also served as kind of like a PC in

case I desperately needed a web browser

that's based on a, a PC kind of operating

system. Fortunately, I don't really have

any need for that right now, but it could

have been handy in case I did need it. So

the Steam Deck really could have taken the

role of both the gaming laptop and the

Switch OLED, which I feel kind of silly.

Also, I lost money because I spent over

£600 buying that Steam Deck by

pre-ordering it and getting the most

expensive version with the biggest storage

capacity, and I managed to sell it for

about £400 because I didn't have the

original box and I didn't have the

charger, so it didn't give me the best

price I could have gotten for selling it

as a used item. So I lost nearly £200

buying that stupid Steam Deck. So as of

right now, my backpack is way too heavy.

A little backpack update: I'm currently

carrying as my travel backpack— inside of

it has my 17-inch gaming laptop with the

power brick charger, Switch OLED. I've got

this microphone, I've got some selfie

sticks, I've got 4 mobile phones I use

filming. I've got a LiveU Solo encoder

thing for live streaming, which I never

use as well, which I also kind of want to

get rid of now because it's useless and I

wasted my money buying that. And I've got

3 battery banks which are very heavy, and

I don't really use all of them most of the

time. So I'm thinking of if I had to redo

my travel backpack, get rid of the gaming

laptop, get rid of 2 of the battery

chargers, get rid of the LiveU and the

power bricks get rid of the Switch OLED

and just have the Steam Deck as my primary

computing and gaming device, and get rid

of maybe some of the other things as well

to lighten up the backpack. So that should

save a lot of room in my backpack. And in

case I do find myself settling down a

little bit during my travels and getting

more of a long-term place to stay, like an

apartment, I can always transform the

portable Steam Deck into something more

like a desktop by just getting either a

cheap TV or cheap monitor or even just

using the TV that comes with the place,

because most hotels and most apartments

already come with a pretty big TV. In

fact, pretty much every single apartment

I've stayed in or hotel I've stayed in so

far on my travels, they've all had a huge

TV that I could have just used for gaming

if I brought HDMI cable. So yeah, even

after months of planning this trip to

Thailand, I don't think I've chosen the

most optimal travel backpack setup, and

I'm seriously thinking about ditching some

stuff, sending it back to the UK, and

continuing my travels with a much lighter

backpack, much more streamlined. Now I

don't know if I can get a new Steam Deck

in Thailand. I'm not sure if they sell

them here. I haven't seen any on sale in

the shops, but I think I could find an

electronic shop that sells— I mean, buys

stuff that I could sell to them, and I

could sell them the gear that I don't want

anymore. And then maybe I can get rid of

the laptop and the Switch OLED, get some

money back for from those items and then

use the money to buy a new Steam Deck. So

the main things I was worried about coming

to Thailand would be the airport security.

I was told that I'm not allowed to bring

so many battery banks. In fact, if you

Google the capacity of battery banks

you're allowed to bring on to an airplane,

it says the maximum limit is about 20,000

milliamps per hour. And I've got 3 battery

banks with a combined milliamp per hour

wattage of nearly 70,000 milliamps. So

I've got a lot of battery banks and I've

strapped them all together using Velcro,

and it kind of looks like this. Let me go

and get it. So this is what my battery

banks look like. There was a third one,

but I unstrapped it from that side of the

Velcro because it was just too heavy. So

this looks kind of suspicious if you're

bringing it in a bag, all this weird stuff

taped together using Velcro, and it also

weighs a ton. So I was worried that they

might interrogate me about my weird stuff.

And it was just a nightmare at the airport

having to drag out my laptop, take that

out. I had to bring out my iPad because I

brought that with me as well, and then to

bring out the battery banks, the LiveU,

my cameras, my GoPro. It was such a

kerfuffle having to bring everything out

of my bag so I can put it into that stupid

plastic tray when you go into airport

security, and then having to try and put

it back into the backpack in a way so that

everything fits back in again. I just

thought it would be so much easier if I

didn't have all this junk and stuff and I

just had a simple Steam Deck in its carry

case. And at airport security, all I had

to do was take out my Steam Deck, place in

the tray, and then I'll be on my way.

It'd be so nice if they changed airport

security so you didn't have to take out

all your tech every time you're going to

take a flight somewhere. I don't know why

they aren't making it easier to just scan

your bags without having to take

everything out and put everything back in

again. It would speed up the entire

process so much if they just had a way to

scan the inside of a bag without having to

take the stuff out. I thought that was the

whole point of the X-ray scanners that you

put your bag through, is so it scans

what's inside of the bag. So what's the

point of having to take everything out and

having to scan it when they're scanning

the inside of the bag anyway? I don't know

how airport security works. It's just kind

of annoying and frustrating. Anyway,

that's all I had to say. Uh, thanks for

watching and bye-bye.