3DS battery life is 3-to-5 hours for 3DS games

[thismeintiel]

alfredofroylan said:

thismeintiel said:

Exactly.  While someone did clarify that "soft" actually meant software, the last two sentences of the translation also point to the 3-5 hrs not being the worst case scenario.

"The approximate battery life. May be less depending on operating conditions."

Wich doesn't indicate that it's the normal scenario either. Basically we can use history as a base here because similar sentences where used for the DSi when it was revealed and we know that the DSi doesn't have that battery life.

But did Iwata come out when DSi was released and say this:

"As for the battery, it is inevitable that Nintendo 3DS will be a device which requires more frequent recharging than Nintendo DS. This is why we are going to include the cradle, which is a dedicated battery charger. Perhaps we may need to dispatch to our consumers a message, something like, “Please place your Nintendo 3DS on the cradle as soon as you return home with it.”