We’ve all been there, eager to obtain yet one more backlog sport, however discovering that our Steam Deck doesn’t have sufficient storage. Nicely, one formidable modder took issues into their very own fingers and constructed a bodily Steam Deck mod to increase their storage to an enormous 19TB, splitting group opinions within the course of.
We’ve mentioned it many instances earlier than, however the Steam Deck is well the most effective handheld gaming PC, and artistic makes use of like this are an enormous purpose why. Seeing this huge Steam Deck alteration come collectively is so spectacular, however many group members should not sharing our sentiment.
The mod is query has been created by ac2334 over on Reddit, and so they took to the r/SteamDeck group web page to point out off their work, solely to be met with feedback like “simply because you may, doesn’t imply it’s best to” and “however… why?”.
Granted, not all the suggestions has been detrimental, and ac2334 has been sort sufficient to offer additional supplies displaying how the mod got here collectively, which is comprised of not less than six flash drives and two MicroSD playing cards. That is all whereas preserving the temperature regulated and creating a way to energy the system which solely contains the one USB-C port.
Extra shocking nonetheless is that upon weighting the attachment, it solely provides 0.659 lbs to the general weight. Nonetheless, it might nonetheless be awkward for anybody who likes to carry their deck with a unfastened grip because it takes up a big portion of the hand-held’s rear.
Bearing resemblance to a number of the finest Steam Deck docks we’ve seen launched commercially, the ingenuity proven on this undertaking is first-class, and we love seeing initiatives like this come collectively, even when we wouldn’t essentially select to connect it to our Steam Decks.
We’re undecided how most of the 14,000+ Steam Deck video games might match onto this modded handheld, however we wouldn’t be shocked if it was a quantity nicely into the hundreds. If we’re simply to give attention to Baldur’s Gate 3, which at present has a downloaded file dimension of 145.74GB, then you possibly can obtain 130 copies, though we’re undecided why you would wish so many.
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