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Ghazi4 on 09 December 2009

stop fighitng!!! lol




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reptile168 on 09 December 2009
Icyedge said:
reptile168 said:
Icyedge said:
reptile168 said:
I do agree that battery is gay on the PS3. The original usb cable is incredibly short so i can't recharge and play at the same time.

Once fully charge it can work for around 20 hours and charge in about 2 hours. You can also charge via any usb device (computer), stop your exageration. They are including free rechargeable battery with their controller and you say that it is gay?!?! Do you think you can still play on another console while you charge the AAs battery?

right, so i'll plug the controller on my pc while playing on the PS3. Great idea. You are a genius.

and yeah, i can play on the 360 while charging the batteries. The cord is actually like 10 feet long.

 

You really dont get it do you. You can plug it through your PC when the PS3 is off. Also you can purchase a 10 feet usb cable for a couple bucks (less expansive than buying a battery pack). So once again stop your exageration.

 

actually, you are the one who doesn't get it. I believe my original post is pretty clear when I say i can't recharge and play at teh same time with the original short cable. You just replied with some unrelated info. Did i mention that it's a pain in the ass to recharge when i'm not playing? I'm only focusin on the play and charge part.

 

I don't even have to buy a usb cable, i have a 6ft cable from my camera that fits. Once again, my original post is referring to the original short cable.



mike_intellivision on 09 December 2009

Does Yahoo also recommend against the DS/DSi for the same reason?
(Or did it recommend against the GBA-SP?)
And what about cell phones and digital cameras?

Someone has never heard of charging units.

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Icyedge on 10 December 2009
reptile168 said:
Icyedge said:
reptile168 said:
Icyedge said:
reptile168 said:
I do agree that battery is gay on the PS3. The original usb cable is incredibly short so i can't recharge and play at the same time.

Once fully charge it can work for around 20 hours and charge in about 2 hours. You can also charge via any usb device (computer), stop your exageration. They are including free rechargeable battery with their controller and you say that it is gay?!?! Do you think you can still play on another console while you charge the AAs battery?

right, so i'll plug the controller on my pc while playing on the PS3. Great idea. You are a genius.

and yeah, i can play on the 360 while charging the batteries. The cord is actually like 10 feet long.

 

You really dont get it do you. You can plug it through your PC when the PS3 is off. Also you can purchase a 10 feet usb cable for a couple bucks (less expansive than buying a battery pack). So once again stop your exageration.

 

actually, you are the one who doesn't get it. I believe my original post is pretty clear when I say i can't recharge and play at teh same time with the original short cable. You just replied with some unrelated info. Did i mention that it's a pain in the ass to recharge when i'm not playing? I'm only focusin on the play and charge part.

 

I don't even have to buy a usb cable, i have a 6ft cable from my camera that fits. Once again, my original post is referring to the original short cable.

I know what you meant, but still, calling it gay because you either have to purchase a longer cable or just think of charging it on any USB device 1 hour after 20 hours of playtime really is an exageration.



slowmo on 10 December 2009
Vexxmania said:
slowmo said:
This article was posted in another thread yesterday:
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=89327&page=19&str=841696943#7

Like I said then its a piece of terrible journalism, thats using the term journalism in it's loosest possible fashion.

One thing I did wonder as I've never looked into it but do the controllers have built in protection to prevent overcharging? It's never a problem for me because I charge one controller while I play with the other usually but I did wonder if you can overcharge them and detroy the battery life in the long term (like you can with most rechargable batteries I hasten to add).

When the red light is flashing (while connected to the PS3 via the usb cable) it indicates that your controller is charging, and when it's not flashing it means that it's done charging. As the controller does this even when hooked up to a PC, I believe it does have built-in protection to prevent overcharging.


Cheers, I think it must have too but was just curious if some of the guys on here who read more Sony sites than me had seen something.  I did once charge mine on the 360 but that shuts off anyway after a while so I didn't notice (that was before I bought my dulashock).



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mibuokami on 10 December 2009

LOL I guess they caught a lot of flak, she actually edited the article about the PS3 controller battery.




Akvod on 10 December 2009
reptile168 said:
Icyedge said:
reptile168 said:
Icyedge said:
reptile168 said:
I do agree that battery is gay on the PS3. The original usb cable is incredibly short so i can't recharge and play at the same time.

Once fully charge it can work for around 20 hours and charge in about 2 hours. You can also charge via any usb device (computer), stop your exageration. They are including free rechargeable battery with their controller and you say that it is gay?!?! Do you think you can still play on another console while you charge the AAs battery?

right, so i'll plug the controller on my pc while playing on the PS3. Great idea. You are a genius.

and yeah, i can play on the 360 while charging the batteries. The cord is actually like 10 feet long.

 

You really dont get it do you. You can plug it through your PC when the PS3 is off. Also you can purchase a 10 feet usb cable for a couple bucks (less expansive than buying a battery pack). So once again stop your exageration.

 

actually, you are the one who doesn't get it. I believe my original post is pretty clear when I say i can't recharge and play at teh same time with the original short cable. You just replied with some unrelated info. Did i mention that it's a pain in the ass to recharge when i'm not playing? I'm only focusin on the play and charge part.

 

I don't even have to buy a usb cable, i have a 6ft cable from my camera that fits. Once again, my original post is referring to the original short cable.

How do you recharge the 360 batteries while you're playing? Just curious, since I thought they were those normal batteries that need to be charge at a charging station.



Goodfella on 10 December 2009

EPIC FAIL so all of you remember.




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EdStation3 on 10 December 2009

The 360 controller is like $70. Plus the battery that doesn't come with it, another $20. $90 bucks for a 360 controller while the PS3's comes up to $55. That's almost double the price and the PS3 still has sixaxis. You're getting more for almost half the price.




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slowmo on 10 December 2009
EdStation3 said:
The 360 controller is like $70. Plus the battery that doesn't come with it, another $20. $90 bucks for a 360 controller while the PS3's comes up to $55. That's almost double the price and the PS3 still has sixaxis. You're getting more for almost half the price.


Don't know what fantasy land you live in but I can pickup a 360 controller cheaper than a DS3, I can then also use my rechargable batteries I have lying around in it or indeed use one of the 5 official battery packs I've acquired over the years.  Funnily enough if I did ever have a battery fail it would cost a tiny fraction of the price of a new controller too, then again if I ever had the battery fail in my DS3 I'd fix it myself for a similar noinal amount.