PSP 3000's hottest feature: Reduced battery life

[Final-Fan]

twesterm said:

Final-Fan said:
[...] let's be clear:  I have never "carried the charger with me" except insofar as I took it on vacation and left it in the hotel room or in the car.  Even the DS can't last an entire 2 week vacation without needing to charge.

Do you honestly play your DS more than 5 hours a day on workdays?  If yes, what is the best way to get a job like yours?  As for being too lazy to take it home, I guess that might be a dealbreaker for you but to me it sounds pretty weak, so whatever.  At worst, I think, you would have to leave the PSP in sleep mode on the second day instead of playing it again like you could the DS.

I appreciate the fact that the PSP does not have the kind of battery life the DS does but, seriously, I think it's not so much that the PSP's is bad as it is that you've been spoiled by the DS.

Lets pretend I'm playing something like Professor Layton and the Curious Village and I have a map that takes me about 2-3 minutes to load and unload.  Both are fine assumptions since I Professor Layton is an awesome game and I'm dealing with production levels that can take time to load and unload everything in the editor.

I generally do one of these three things during those 2-3 minutes:

   1. Just sit there and stare blankly at the screen for 2-3 minutes
   2. Read news/forums
   3. Play my DS for 2-3 minutes

Assuming it's a day where I feel like doing number three and there' no convienent way to charge my DS while sitting at my desk (my power strip is pretty full), my DS will stay on and/or in sleep mode for at least 8 hours.  So yes, again, battery life is important to me.

Why do people have such a hard time believing that battery life is an important factor for me?  I don't give a flying fuck if you're happy with the battery life because that doesn't make it work any better for me.  I've said this who knows how many times now but for some odd reason people just want to think what works for them works for everyone else.  I've read the advice and I'm taking that into consideration (which I've also said) and that should be plenty for people.

See, "on" and "in sleep mode" are completely different animals.  The PSP and DS both can last for a ridiculous amount of time in sleep mode with minimal battery loss.  And both of them can go in and out of sleep mode in a couple of seconds. 

If you want to be completely paranoid about battery life, that's your right, but I don't think your fears reflect reality in this case.  It's not that I'm saying that you're wrong to think the way you do (which you're not) in this exchange so much as I'm trying to understand how much time exactly you need the device to last and whether it's reasonable to think the PSP can't hack it with a good amount to spare. 

[edit:  At this point I'm just trying to determine it to my own satisfaction (since your mind is clearly made up for now) and if you don't care to spend the time posting about it anymore I can't say I'd really blame you.]

[edit2:  On the other hand, I wish you'd've let me know instead of just never responding.]