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Wii U gamepad takes 2.5 hours to charge, works 3-5hours
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maquiladora
Member
Oh man....
My interest in Wii U was so high before E3
My interest in Wii U was so high before E3
somesayyea
Member
this seems bad
Fantastical
Death Prophet
More good news.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I hope they pack in 1 pro controller.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Unfortunately I have expected something like this so was prepared for it. I understand too well that technology isn't magic. And battery technology is shit compared to the demands of modern mobile computing.
I'm not saying this is great news, it's not...
... but it's becoming clear expectations are way outstripping reality in the area of consumer electronics.
You aren't going to be playing a iPad game for 10 hours either, if it has wifi on all the time.
That's just the way it is.
I'm not saying this is great news, it's not...
... but it's becoming clear expectations are way outstripping reality in the area of consumer electronics.
You aren't going to be playing a iPad game for 10 hours either, if it has wifi on all the time.
That's just the way it is.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
So Xbox Glass and PSVcontroller both last longer?
Wow.
Wow.
_Alkaline_
Member
No words.
Tablets aren't constantly receiving video streaming from another device though. How much time does it take for an iPad to run out of battery streaming Netflix?
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
Glad to see Nintendo learning nothing from the 3DS. Now we just have to wait for them to announce a $399 price point no one will want to pay.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Yeah... That's... Even I can't fucking spin this. :\ Guess I'll have to go wired :\
bad news after bad news.
using two pads will cause the frame rate to drop significantly, and now short battery life announced.
This screen really fucked things up again. Imagine if they had spent that extra money on improving hardware specs and announced the Wii U pro controller as the controller.
Damn they dropped the ball. I guess that's what happens when you take risks trying to pull another Wii.
using two pads will cause the frame rate to drop significantly, and now short battery life announced.
This screen really fucked things up again. Imagine if they had spent that extra money on improving hardware specs and announced the Wii U pro controller as the controller.
Damn they dropped the ball. I guess that's what happens when you take risks trying to pull another Wii.
SolarPowered
Member
Makes me wish we still had the Wii-mote instead...
seriously, fuck batteries...
Sho_Nuff82
Member
So I'd play it wired all the time like my dead battery 360 controllers.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Well that's some questionable battery life, but kind of expected I guess when you consider what it's doing. Understandable but no less disappointing.
Treythalomew
Member
Can't wait for the monstrosity that Nyko will add to the back of this to double the battery.
MikeE21286
Member
Are you kidding?
Mr. B Natural
Member
Tablets cost money, something Nintendo doesn't like being charitable about.
My TV is clear across the room. My 360 cord barely makes it half the way.
Unless it plugs into the wall. And it better include a converter.
Ravensmash
Member
Yep, it's not a portable console so I don't really see the issue.
You're not going to be walking around town with it - it's going to be in the same room as the charger almost all the time.
Yeah I don't do that shit anymore. Plus it can be used while charging, right? And hopefully there's a wired solution too. This is like a non-issue for me
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
And coax thickness. Can't have the heathens walk on it and rip it up.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Wow. That's... so bad. :-O
maquiladora
Member
Having to wait 2.5 fucking hours between every 3-5 hours of gameplay sounds really annoying. I would probably end up keeping it wired all the time but I dont like the idea of swiming and moving around the gamepad with a wire attached.
Dead Man Typing
Member
Nintendo didn't release a play and charge solution for the Wii remote because a lot of the games were so movement based that you couldn't be tethered whilst playing. It would have caused all sorts of safety complications.
With the Wii U, there shouldn't be those same complications, but some games may want to use the controller in a more active way. Would Nintendo disable play and charge functionality in certain titles if they required a lot of movement, or would they leave that up to the player's judgement?
With the Wii U, there shouldn't be those same complications, but some games may want to use the controller in a more active way. Would Nintendo disable play and charge functionality in certain titles if they required a lot of movement, or would they leave that up to the player's judgement?
brochiller
Member
No excuse for this. It doesn't even have a processor in it wtf.
Takeda Kenshi
blew Staal
And people wanted a HD screen? lolz
The important question here (and maybe it has been answered already and I just don't know it) is "Can you use the tablet/gamepad while it is charging?"
Because if not, this is going to be a disaster. Wii remotes were already pretty bad, where the only rechargeable batteries I'm aware of require contact to charge, meaning you can't just run a wire to the controller, and its not practical to play while its charging. This is perhaps understandable, since a wire would be unwieldy for a motion controller, but it also meant you had to have a spare already charged at all times, or you would be SOL if it died. Luckily the battery life wasn't too bad, otherwise it would have been impractical for party settings without spending a good chunk of change on replacing batteries.
If I can plug this in and play while charging, then I don't particularly care what the battery life is. But if I can't do that, then this is going to be a real problem for a system that I'm realistically not going to have a spare controller.
Because if not, this is going to be a disaster. Wii remotes were already pretty bad, where the only rechargeable batteries I'm aware of require contact to charge, meaning you can't just run a wire to the controller, and its not practical to play while its charging. This is perhaps understandable, since a wire would be unwieldy for a motion controller, but it also meant you had to have a spare already charged at all times, or you would be SOL if it died. Luckily the battery life wasn't too bad, otherwise it would have been impractical for party settings without spending a good chunk of change on replacing batteries.
If I can plug this in and play while charging, then I don't particularly care what the battery life is. But if I can't do that, then this is going to be a real problem for a system that I'm realistically not going to have a spare controller.
Okay, but an iPad has a dual-core CPU and a quad-core GPU in it. Wii U Gamepad doesn't have that stuff so it should last much longer than the iPad, not under half the time.