why i DON'T Regret selling my Steam Deck + Thailand updates

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

it's been a few months since I sold my

Steam Deck, and I wanted to make an update

video on why I don't regret selling the

Steam Deck, and also a bit of an update on

my travel in Thailand. As you may know,

my first video about the Steam Deck

somehow has— amazingly, it has 277,000

views, which is more than I ever expected.

And in the video, I did mention briefly

about my backpack, which you can see is

still with me, still behind me. And I also

did mention about my future travel plans

to Thailand, which I'm in Thailand right

now. I can't really show you where I am

because, you know, there's a lot of

weirdos on the internet. I do have some

videos I took when I was out and about in

Thailand traveling around, but this

channel is not really about travel, it's

more about gaming and tech. So I don't

know if I'd upload my Thailand travel

videos. So anyway, I don't really regret

selling the Steam Deck because, well,

initially I thought I was going to come to

Thailand, I won't have time to do a lot of

serious gaming on my laptop. So I

initially bought the Steam Deck because in

my mind I thought I was going to be

traveling every day lugging around big

heavy laptop would be kind of

uncomfortable, and I thought a smaller

handheld device would be more beneficial

to my travel plans. But it turns out that

upon coming to Thailand, I haven't been

traveling every single day. I've been

traveling every weekend with my

girlfriend, which I now have Thai

girlfriend by the way, and we do go

traveling every weekend, which is great

and everything. But the thing is, we don't

go traveling every single day because she

has to go to work and I have to spend

basically Monday to Friday at home in the

apartments that we now live in together.

And it turns out that having a laptop is

actually a lot better if you just stay in

an apartment all day long because the

laptop screen is a lot bigger. You can do

much better gaming with a gaming laptop

than you can with just a little handheld

console. The handheld console would have

been great if I was spending the majority

of my time out and about, but it turns out

that in reality you just can't really

travel every single day for like 3 months

straight. That's just kind of impossible

and unrealistic. So I find myself in a

situation where I'm spending basically

Monday to Friday all day long inside, not

going outside and just staying at home.

And having a laptop is so much better

because, well, I'm on the laptop basically

all day long, either gaming or doing some

streaming or making some videos or maybe

just watching some YouTube or watching

some Twitch streamers. And I find myself

just using the laptop basically 90% of the

day. And if I didn't have the laptop and I

just had the Steam Deck, I feel like it

would have been very uncomfortable, and

eventually I would have had to either get

a laptop or just buy like a monitor or a

small TV to plug the Steam Deck into and

also get a keyboard and mouse for the

Steam Deck. At that point, the portability

of the Steam Deck would have been reduced

to not much better than just getting a

laptop. Now, to be honest, even though I

am happy with my laptop, I am not happy

with the state of my backpack. Now, the

size of the backpack is okay, but my

backpack is just way too heavy. It weighs—

I think it weighed about 15 kg, which very

heavy. I'm not a very strong guy, as you

may know by just seeing the shape of my

body, and carrying 15 kg on my back, I can

do it for about maybe half an hour to an

hour. After an hour of carrying that thing

on my bag— I mean, on my back— it starts

to get really uncomfortable. And also,

when you go to airport security, you've

got to take everything out to go in the

scanner, and it's such a pain. I've got to

pull out my laptop, I've got to pull out

my iPad, I've got to pull out my LiveU

Solo, got to pull out my battery banks,

my Switch OLED, and also the power bricks,

all of the charging power are huge,

and I'm not very happy with the current

state of my backpack because I kind of

pride myself on traveling light. This is

not a light backpack, by the way. It looks

small, it looks like I'm traveling light,

but the backpack is not light. But you

might be thinking, since you still go

traveling on the weekends, don't you

regret not having a Steam Deck anymore?

Because you could have brought the Steam

Deck with you on your travels on the

weekend. I could also bring my laptop,

but I don't really want to because we're

going traveling, we're going sightseeing.

I'm not really going to be sitting in a

hotel room playing a lot of PC gaming my

laptop. But I did try bringing my Switch

OLED, and I did play it for maybe a few

hours. Played a bit of Dark Souls

Remastered, and it was okay. I mean, it's

basically like Elden Ring, and it plays

pretty well on the Switch OLED. The

problem is, when I'm in travel mode, when

my brain is in travel mode, I'm not really

interested in gaming. I'm more interested

in, you know, experiencing the new place

I'm in and relaxing in the hotel and

enjoying food and drink and my girlfriend.

I just don't really feel like I'm in a

gaming mood. So even if I brought— even

though I brought my Switch OLED with me

for a few of the trips, I found myself

barely touching the Switch OLED for longer

than just maybe 1 hour, and then I get

kind of bored, and then we have to go to

bed or we have to go to the next

destination. And I'm not going to play it

in the car because I get motion sickness

if I have to look at anything like a book

or my phone whilst I'm in a car. I start

to feel really sick and queasy, so I don't

even dare touch my Switch OLED when I'm in

the car. So I'm just trying to think about

my life situation and think about how

would a Steam Deck improve my life when

I'm at home. I've got a gaming laptop

which is very good, very powerful, big

screen, 17-inch. It does everything a

Steam Deck can do and much more and much

better. There's nothing my laptop can't do

that a Steam Deck can do apart from maybe

fit in my trouser pocket, and that's only

if you've got very big trouser pockets,

which unfortunately my trouser pockets are

not big enough to even put a Steam Deck in

because I don't wear cargo trousers like I

used to. And then when I go weekend

traveling, I don't really want to do any

gaming anyway, so I wouldn't even bring

the Steam Deck if I was going to do

weekend traveling. So I don't really know

how a Steam Deck would fit into my life.

It seems like with my current life, a

laptop is fine. Actually, I don't even

need the Switch OLED. I kind of want to

sell the Switch OLED now because I very

rarely touch it and the games on it are

not even that great. The only reason I

want to keep on to it is because there

might be some new Nintendo games coming

out next year, like a new Zelda, that I

might have to review, and I need the

Switch OLED to be able to play the game so

I can review it. Because, you know, I

actually need to play the games before I

can review it. It'd be kind of stupid if I

made a review review on something that

I've never even played. So my tech usage

ratio is probably like 99% gaming laptop

and then 1% Switch OLED. I don't really

mind keeping the Switch OLED because it's

so tiny, it's so small and slim, it fits

into my backpack really easily. There's no

power brick or anything, and it is very

portable, much more portable than the big

chunky and thick Steam Deck is. And I

don't really mind carrying it around. And

like I said, it is fun for a bit of casual

gaming, like a bit of Mario Kart here and

there that I can't really do on my laptop.

And in case you're wondering, I did manage

to sell my Steam Deck for a pretty good

price. I sold it for about £400. They did

offer me £420, but because I didn't have

the original box, I didn't have the manual

either because I chucked it out first day

I got my Steam Deck. I thought I was going

to keep it because it was really cool,

and I just kind of tore the box up and I

chucked the manual into the bin. So they

didn't give me full price, but they still

gave me a pretty good price. I paid a

total of £550 for it, and they sold— they

bought it from me for £400. So I did lose

about £150, but that's okay because

I did get to experience using it and I did

make a lot of money from the videos that I

made from it. So it's not really a loss at

the end of the day. A lot of the comments

on the 277,000 viewed video about why

I regret buying the Steam Deck were saying

stuff like, how can you even think that

anyone's gonna buy it from you after you

dropped your Switch onto the screen of the

Steam Deck? And that's just funny because

number one, I dropped the Switch from

maybe a height of 2 inches, which is that

high, and the Switch weighs nothing. It's

not like a chunk of metal, it's just like

a 200-gram piece of plastic. And I bought

the most expensive Steam Deck, which has

Gorilla Glass, which is really strong and

scratch-resistant glass. So the screen of

the Steam Deck didn't suffer or receive

any kind of damage from dropping a

200-gram piece of plastic onto it. I don't

know why people thought that it was going

to break the Steam Deck or anything.

Also, I don't know why anyone thought that

the people who watched the video would be

the people who would buy the Steam Deck

from me. I live in the UK, or I lived in

the UK. Most of the viewers that watch

that video are from America, so none of

the people who watch the video are ever

going to be the people who would

potentially buy the Steam Deck from me. I

sold the Steam Deck to a shop in England,

and no, they didn't watch my video,

because why would they? Why would they

know that I even have a video about the

Steam Deck in the first place. They don't

know anything about me. They don't even

know my name. I just walked in the shop

and I said, hey, can I sell the Steam

Deck? They said, okay, let's have a look.

They said the condition was really good

and they gave me a really good price for

it. So it's so funny, people saying, oh,

how do you expect to sell the Steam Deck

after dropping the Switch on it? Because

I'm not going to show the video to the

person that I'm selling it to. So in

conclusion, I don't really regret selling

the Steam Deck and I kind of want to sell

the Switch OLED as well and maybe also

sell my gaming laptop. And maybe get

something that's a bit smaller. 17 inches

is nice, but I think it's kind of hard to

get into my backpack, and maybe having a

15-inch gaming laptop might be a bit

better. Also, my 17-inch gaming laptop is

getting a bit old now. I bought it last

year, I think, so it's well over a year

old, and I've used it a lot, and it might

be getting a bit slow. I don't know.