IGN: Nintendo 3DS Review

[cyberninja45]

enrageorange said:

cyberninja45 said:

Also i think stating the battery life, at max settings, first is a bit misleading. As people rarely, if ever, play it that way. Its like reviewing a netbook and saying "the battery life is only 1hr" not saying  its while playing a movie and having virus scans and multiple background applications going on at the same time; with max brightness, speaker volume, wifi and bluethooth on. "Oh and its sometimes 7hrs when used normally."  

except that the main reason to buy a 3ds is to...... play games in 3d. Netbooks are usually for casual web browsing or writing up a document. So that arguement is completly invalid. I'm fine with them giving it a 4 for longitivity but some of the other scores seem to low for the compliments. 7.5 is a great score if they followed guidelines when posting scores, but when you compare it to some of the other 7.5 reviewed products it makes it seem pretty mediocre.

Using it normally does mean with 3d off. If u play the 3ds with the lowest settings without 3d  u can actually get up to seven hours battery life with  3ds games. So i think the 4 hrs is normal usage( Say with 3d on most of the times, no wireless, mid-low brightness, headphone sound etc.)