Modder Builds a 21st Century Gameboy From a Steam Deck
THE SO WHAT
A hobbyist shrinking a Steam Deck into a Gameboy form factor is a reminder that handheld performance is no longer the constraint—thermal and UX are. For device makers, the bar for differentiated portable hardware is now ergonomics, battery, and ecosystem, not raw compute.
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