This is the one I was referring to, I can't conceive a 3DS without it. In this test, 3DS equipped with it would last over 5 hours.
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3DS VS Vita battery life test
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AbsoluteZero
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I doubt you'd get 10 hours of battery life on an iPad playing a game with the fidelity of your average 3DS/Vita title.
Why would you do that?
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I can't speak for the Vita or for your eyes, but the 3DS at max brightness really hurts my eyes. I usually keep it on 2 or 3 (out of 5).
Didn't the Japanese manual show that you can unscrew 8 screws and remove the Vita battery yourself?
sixteen-bit
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Epic Citadel stress test was what, 3 hours?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
But you can't disable Vita features and throttle power, except the Wifi, which they did disable on all of the systems.
Basically, on a portable device, the things you can do that can affect battery life are:
- Change brightness
- Toggle Wifi/3G
- Change sound output / volume output
- (3DS: Turn on/off 3D)
The best comparison would test all of these factors, but if that's not possible, the ideal thing to do would be to do two comparisons; minimum battery (3D on for 3DS, Wifi on for all, Max brightness, etc) and maximum battery (3D off for 3DS, Wifi off for all, Min brightness, etc)
AbsoluteZero
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I believe so, but that might have been on the iPhone.
Either way iPad/iPhone is right in the 3DS/Vita ballpark in terms of battery life.
I'd actually love to see a maximum battery test.
That's what the cradle is for.
iceatcs
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Vita loses automatically for not including user replaceable battery. One of the worse features of the iDesigns...
Vita battery is removable.
Cool, then 3DS should leave 3D mode on because Vita have very high pixel counts.
Surprisingly good numbers for Vita. I can see improvement on 3DS's side if you lower brightness though since that's the bottleneck on that side. Playing @ 3 brightness just fine myself.
I'm assuming the 45nm chips in Vita is the real bottleneck, so a chip shrink could do absolute wonders for this system. No idea how much more efficient they can really make a proprietary mini 3D screen for the 3DS.
I'm assuming the 45nm chips in Vita is the real bottleneck, so a chip shrink could do absolute wonders for this system. No idea how much more efficient they can really make a proprietary mini 3D screen for the 3DS.
Very true. GTAIII devastates my iPhone 4 more than iOS5...
Oppo
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You're right of course, although the brightness does have the most dramatic effect on battery.
As for under clocking and the like, i would not be surprised if the Vita's processors automagically stepped down/slept in certain situations to conserve power, like in the main dashboard or what-have-you.
Seriously, the iPad battery is fucking king.
HamPster PamPster
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Screw mobile gaming. The Vita, 3DS, iPhone and iPad all have terrible life
I'm buying a kindle and taking up reading, plus now I can complain about how shitty game stories are
I'm buying a kindle and taking up reading, plus now I can complain about how shitty game stories are
Vita loses automatically for not including user replaceable battery. One of the worse features of the iDesigns...
Eh? You assume wrong.
:lol. this guy knows what he's talking about.
Can't be replaced easily, specially with something bigger. Ala PSP and 3DS.
Vita loses automatically for not including user replaceable battery. One of the worse features of the iDesigns...
Eh? You assume wrong.
Vita battery is indeed user replaceable. Just unscrew two screws and you have easy access to the battery. It's on its manual.
So these comments of ipad and iphone battery life of 8-10 hours is .. how you say .. misleading.
Ok GAF this is an A vs. B conversation. I don't see room for C. Get out
manueldelalas
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There's the fact that you actually CAN do that on the 3DS and can't on the VITA.
That's why everyone is asking for tests comparisons with minimum power (lowest brightness, no 3D, no WiFi, no Bluetooth, no volume, and so on) and one test with maximum power (max brightness, 3D, WiFi, Bluetooth, Volume on max, etc).
As it stands, all I have to say is apples =/= oranges.
AbsoluteZero
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Except that playing games on the thing results in battery times right in line with the 3DS and Vita.
I'm part of the reason you actual commuters suffer and I apologize.Uno Venova
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I miss the days of high battery lives for handhelds, the 3DS though is especially terrible.
iceatcs
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You tried?
Criminal Upper
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One of the systems can't do Mario games either.
Let's downgrade the CPU/GPU of the VITA and check the battery afterwards. I mean, one of the systems doesn't have that much hardware power.
Answer: No, it would not be fair
You know what he means
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
That has not been the case in my experience as an iPad owner.
Tried what?
Using a Vita extended battery? It looks like this, so I assume i can just stick it with the device.
When I play Game Dev story I get like two hours on my iPhone 4. These people crowing about the battery in iDevices seem to be missing this fact!
Cosmonaut X
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Not had a problem with the 3DS battery life so far, but I tend to play for 1-2 hours per session and always have chance to drop it back in its cradle before my next session so even with 3D on, wi-fi on etc. I'm still not running it that low.
Some of the "lol 3DS - go Vita" posts I've seen do tickle me a little though - we're talking about both devices having battery lives that would have been laughed out of the room in previous gens, and just because Vita manages an extra ~1hr it doesn't make its battery life any less paltry.
Short version - they're both shit, and if your biggest plus point for the Vita battery life is that it's slightly less shit that says it all
Some of the "lol 3DS - go Vita" posts I've seen do tickle me a little though - we're talking about both devices having battery lives that would have been laughed out of the room in previous gens, and just because Vita manages an extra ~1hr it doesn't make its battery life any less paltry.
Short version - they're both shit, and if your biggest plus point for the Vita battery life is that it's slightly less shit that says it all
Dead Prince
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probably can via HTML5 sites and playing old NES games and using touch (unless they got a way to map buttons)
iceatcs
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Vita battery.
br0ken_shad0w
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This is why I rarely buy devices where you can't easily replace the battery. My GS2 phone drains like shit, but I can rest easy knowing I can just buy a new battery pack once it starts being a problem. The same couldn't be said for my old Apple products...
Not if you're just playing games on it. I mean, it's better, but I doubt it's better by much.
None of the Mario games are going to drain the battery like Uncharted.
Some PSPs can
Oh and the comment about HTML5 and a mario game .. possible I think on the Vita
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The double standard. And lol at not knowing that you can replace the Vita battery.
- Play less demanding software.
This would essentially throttle it. Of course, making battery life claims on the basis of turning off the major selling point of your hardware or restraining yourself to only play less demanding games for the sake of battery life is kind of pathetic.
I'm curious to see how the 3DS does without 3D, but comparisons should be tested in terms of how the user would typically be using the hardware without making sacrifices.
manueldelalas
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One of the systems can't do Resident Evil, Kingdom Hearts or Monster Hunter (oh snap! bring on the list warz!!)
Vita battery is indeed user replaceable. Just unscrew two screws and you have easy access to the battery. It's on its manual.
Cool ! I suspect third parties will release portable/clip-on Vita battery pack that plugs into the accessory port too.
The battery is internal. Replacing it with a larger battery would require a new back panel which can't be done since the back of the unit is a touch panel.
Lazy developers making inefficient power hogging code amirite?
But what about the back-touch?
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