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Modern games, such asFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth, are increasingly demanding of your available storage.

Thanks, Square Enix, from Steam Deck owners everywhere.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Cloud

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is now much smaller when downloaded to a Steam Deck.

So how is this possible just for Steam Deck?

After all, we’re not hunting for 4K visuals and ray tracing on the Deck, are we?

This isn’t a totally foreign concept, either.

Dbrand Steam Deck skin

Steam Deck doesn’t need higher resolution textures and cut scenes and what not, and game developerscanavoid this.

The sad truth is that not many do this, but they definitely should.

Square Enix gets a gold star for effort here, and is setting an example others should certainly follow.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Custom Chocobo Steam Deck

Sephiroth and Cloud flanked by Shinra soldiers in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

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A Crucial P310 m.2 2230 SSD for Steam Deck and ROG Ally in its retail box.

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MSI Claw 8 AI+ propped up next to an ROG Ally X on a table.

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