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3DS Battery Life Fully Detailed By Nintendo
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storafötter
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Foffy said:
Pretty much this made me realize the big difference (along with brighter backlights). Which made me pretty much crave for a DS lite, I just hope the difference won't be this big for the 3ds. I will be an early adopter as i was with the original (those batteries didnt last me more than 5 hours I will say).
Brightness and battery life has always appealed me the most with portable devices. It is a bit ironic that despite the 3ds being worse in terms of battery life I am still interested. I don't game as much as I used to and when I do its usually in short bursts when attending University. Playing games for 5 hours on a flight is tiring anyways, so I will be fine without it. The main concern is how it always has to be plugged in whenever I play regularly.
Nintendo DSi: The lowest brightness (9-14h) - highest brightness (3-4h)
Nintendo 3DS (3D enabled): The lowest brightness (5h) - highest brightness (3h)
Nintendo 3DS (3D disabled): The lowest brightness (6h15m) - highest brightness (3h45m)
Judging by this the lowest setting on 3DS is not low enough or I'm missing something.
Nintendo 3DS (3D enabled): The lowest brightness (5h) - highest brightness (3h)
Nintendo 3DS (3D disabled): The lowest brightness (6h15m) - highest brightness (3h45m)
Judging by this the lowest setting on 3DS is not low enough or I'm missing something.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
I'm still a little bit confused.
Has anyone confirmed that we'll be able to squeeze out "8 hours (6.5 hours with WiFi on constantly)" or are we still guessing?
Yeesh.
I'm assuming that this is an estimation with 3D on, right?
And this means that if we turn off 3D we'd get a %25 boost at those settings, right? so roughly 3.75 hours.
Again, I'm assuming the 3D is on, and we'll get a boost when it's turned off, right? but the "%25" statement is phrased in a way that suggests that we may not get the same boost under different settings. Is it gonna be a lower boost, or higher?
Has anyone confirmed that we'll be able to squeeze out "8 hours (6.5 hours with WiFi on constantly)" or are we still guessing?
Yeesh.
Battery life is not really a problem for me, since I don't take my DS many places now as it is.
I did take it on a Greyhound bus down to Florida once (that fucking sucked btw), but just used it to listen to music.
When I'm playing games it'll be plugged in 90% of the time. I can see that it's battery life is not great, but I'm still getting a 3DS day one (or 2 or 3 or whenever Amazon gets it to me.)
I did take it on a Greyhound bus down to Florida once (that fucking sucked btw), but just used it to listen to music.
When I'm playing games it'll be plugged in 90% of the time. I can see that it's battery life is not great, but I'm still getting a 3DS day one (or 2 or 3 or whenever Amazon gets it to me.)
What they are saying is if you turn down the brightness to the lowest the dynamic brightness adjusting system is pretty much useless so it wont save energy like it would on max brightness. you get the extra battery life turning off 3D whatever level of brightness you useJinfash said:
phisheep
NeoGAF's Chief Barrister
Amir0x said:
Love it. Company being honest, and people kick back (a) at their estimate and (b) at their being honest. EDIT: oh, and (c) at the battery life!
Really this doesn't worry me much, if at all. I very rarely play even 2 hours continuously on a handheld, and even if I'm out of the house I don't think I've ever played that long continously and away from a power socket.
i'm sure we had this argument in 2004, but i still don't know how people are managing to play their handhelds for more than a few hours between charging opportunities -- i thought the whole fuss over psp's battery life was console politics, but apparently not. surely it's not just the inconvenience of having to charge your machine every day or two -- and if you've got a smartphone, you're used to this by now.
given that battery life is a tradeoff with insignificant factors like, i don't know, processing power and screen brightness, i think 3-5 hours is exactly where hardware designers should be shooting
given that battery life is a tradeoff with insignificant factors like, i don't know, processing power and screen brightness, i think 3-5 hours is exactly where hardware designers should be shooting
_Alkaline_
Member
Mojojo said:
Majora's Mask 3DS: Now with twice the time obstacles! Can Link save the world in three days? Or will he succumb to shithouse battery life? Only $39.99!
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Jinfash said:
That was my guess based on the "25% boost" and David Yarnton's previous comments where he said that the console lasts about 8 hours without 3D.
I'm also assuming lowest brightness (since we don't know exactly how much extra is saved on highest brightness)
KamenSenshi
Junior Member
Actually would prefer a larger size with better battery life. Thought I would wait for a revision but hearing that it way be a while before that happens is pushing me closer to just reserving one today now that its been confirmed what the battery life is like. Just gotta find out what the size is like compared to a Lite since thats about the smallest I'm willing to go. Anyone here hold one at an event that could comment, especially if SSF4 was played as that would be my first purchase.
frankie_baby
Member
The battery life is a little disappointing but not a deal braker, its unlikely I'd use 3d when on the bus far too bumpy and most trains I go on usually have a plug socket
The Super Bob
Member
I'm used to not charging my DS for stupidly long periods of time. 4-5 hours is definitely putting me off this. I travel on trains for about 3 hours a day.
Don't think I'm going to be an early adopter of the 3DS. I was all up for it, but it's not looking so good at the minute.
Don't think I'm going to be an early adopter of the 3DS. I was all up for it, but it's not looking so good at the minute.
Cosmonaut X
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SmokeMaxX said:
TBDR = tile-based deferred rendering (aka PowerVR in the PSP2)
IMR = not sure, but almost certainly referring to the GPU in the 3DS
I think the point he's making is that the difference in GPU solutions accounts for the difference in battery and likely cost (with the insinuation that the PSP2 price will be lower than expected?)
BetterWorldz
Member
VOOK said:
Buy one of these and be done with it.
These things are the future if battery tech doesn't catch up with everything else real quick.
Where can I buy this eneloop stick? Amazon hasn't heard of it.
Pureauthor
Member
I can't recall if I complained about this back in the original thread, but hey, even if I did there's no reason not to do so again:
3-5 hours of battery is an awful, awful figure. It sucked on the PSP, it will suck on the 3DS and if the PSP2 numbers are right, it will suck on the PSP2. Battery life should always take priority in handheld design.
Nice going Nintendo. You've screwed up almost everything I care about in the hardware of the 3DS. Anything else?
3-5 hours of battery is an awful, awful figure. It sucked on the PSP, it will suck on the 3DS and if the PSP2 numbers are right, it will suck on the PSP2. Battery life should always take priority in handheld design.
Nice going Nintendo. You've screwed up almost everything I care about in the hardware of the 3DS. Anything else?
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Deleted member 1235
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_Alkaline_ said:
which would you rather, 3D or a long battery life?
given that it sounds like this is very much the case.
Pureauthor
Member
catfish said:
Cosmetic bullshit vs. actual functionality?
I'll be taking the functionality, thanks.
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Deleted member 1235
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Pureauthor said:
Oh, OK, 3d with no glasses is cosmetic bullshit? Well then you can just switch 3d completely off right?
Not that i'm impressed with the battery life at all. But as handhelds get more powerful and battery tech refuses to improve, Nintendo and Sony aren't magic. Don't expect the PSP2 to be any better in this regard unless they put a mini nuclear reactor in there.
sixteen-bit
Member
I'm personally going to wait on a revision with better battery life.
Pureauthor
Member
catfish said:
Actually, that you can switch it off is exactly why this is going to be cosmetic bullshit - no game can take full advantage of it from a gameplay standpoint. Or at least not for long.
Then stop making the handhelds more powerful. Tada.
Pureauthor said:
Then what's the point of coming out with a new handheld then? The ds is the most successful handheld ever. Why not just keep releasing games on that and be done with it? I still play my ds almost daily, and there are still great games coming out several years after it launched.
the thoroughbred
Member
they should just release a longer lasting battery as an official accessory. So for those that want it, they just unscrew the old for the new. I assume everything is done to keep the RRP within a certain budget. I applaud that. Accessibility for Nintendo consoles has always held a certain amount of importance post N64.
Pureauthor
Member
LM4sure said:
So they can force you to purchase another set of hardware to keep up with the latest software.
_Alkaline_
Member
LM4sure said:
Technology can improve without having to go overboard. Nintendo clearly did not pay enough attention to ensuring a healthy battery life in this console.
As for Sony, their strategy is just fucked. Yes Sony, keep making ridiculously powerful machines at ridiculously expensive prices because that's exactly what made the PSP/PS3 such a success.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I'm disappointed, but I appreciate their honesty on the subject.