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superchunk on 01 March 2012
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dharh said:


I do play it at work, where I am mobile much of the day, quite often waiting for stuff 5-15 minutes at a time, the _perfect_ window for mobile games. 

Even going by your scenario where I would charge the device in my car, I wouldn't be driving long enough for any significant charge, less than 10 minutes, so Id still have to charge it at home when I came home from work.

And yes, when im at home I would rather play my home consoles, which their much richer gameplay than most any handheld game has ever had.

The fact is, I have a completely different day than you, one that is not amenable to this thing. But as I said earlier, _if_ they did do it but still had the normal, no phone option with the same form factor as the current PSVita, I would be ok with it. If they had a _only_ phone option, then they would completely lose my business not just because I would hate the form factor but they would also have to guarantee I would not have to charge it at all within at least a 12 hour window of semi active use.

If you didn't want to have a discussion all you had to do was just say, "Thats cool man but I disagree with you." The end.

ok, I agree not everyone would a like the form factor. I've said that many times actually.

But, I really think that would be the only negative as compared to what exists now. You'd have the same life span with continuous play and if you're worried about a dead phone, well, that's why you have chargers.

Based on your scenario it doesn't sound like to me it would die in the middle of your day and 10mins on a decent quality charger in a car is actually pretty good.

Plus, knowing people who are heavy active users on various smart phones, I see phones that must be charged throughout the day and those people do well based on their habits. There are always extremes in all use cases. My strong feeling is battery life would definitely not be deal breaker.