Another way to avoid being encumbered is to offload some of your stuff somewhere safe. Your ship storage is an ideal solution, because it has much more space than your character inventory, and it goes with you wherever you go. But even a ship's Cargo Hold can get filled up. Fortunately...
I quite enjoy cloud streaming now. I find it the quickest way to testing if a game is worth committing download time or even $ to buy it. And using dedicated devices like the portal and gcloud makes it all the better. But like Goodguy says... it's an option, and no...