Oh, he totally bought it for himself. He probably bought the steamdeck hoping it would work with Windows 7, but once he found out it doesn't, well, it just sat in a box collecting dust in his middle condo. The only thing I think was given to him, was the crap that Machinima gave him back in the day. I remember during his "Cleaning out my closet" stream, he found a Machinima Xbox 360, that old Wii remote with corroded batteries STILL in it, along with GTA V collectors edition STILL in the box with the Los Santos hat, and he put it on his greasy pig head. That and can't forget about that figure T gave him before he died...and him crying about T. Didn't shed a tear over Scott passing away, but make money off of dead friendships and dead people? Yeah, good idea! I digress.
I think he claims a "generous fan" donated something massive to him to give the illusion that he's broke. If you know someone that's claiming to be broke, but all of a sudden, they're coming to your place in new clothes, new shoes, etc...you start to go "Wait a second, the math isn't mathing!" This isn't the first time Phil has claimed broke, nor will it be the last. Once he got his huff's on the BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) like Affirm, Klara, etc...he was all over that like Khat on the next delivery of Doordash.
Phil is broke, alright. However, he's not broke enough to pull for Hogans, brother!