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VGKing on 11 March 2012
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greenmedic88 said:
VGKing said:

Battery life is an issue. The new iPad will have similar battery life to a PS Vita when playing graphically intensive games.
With a new iPad release each year, battery life can only go down. The iPad3 is already getting fatter instead of thinner. This is because this was necessary to maintain similar battery life to the iPad 2 despite the big increase in power.

Read the reviews on the new iPad before finishing that thought and then wait for the lab battery performance tests. The battery life is unprecedented. Apple had to increase the thickness of the back case by about .6mm to accomodate the new cell, but it is no exaggeration to say that it has the best battery life of any comparable device.

By all indications, Apple will continue to maintain a target 10 hour battery life regardless of what spec updates future iPads have.

Comparing the iPad to the PSV is a bad match up. After a good two plus weeks of using the PSV for everything from downloading files via WiFi, web browsing, light gaming, watching video, the works; there is no comparison. There's no reason to believe that if the battery tests were limited to playing graphically intensive games only that the results would be any different unless you're suggesting that the PSV magically manages battery life better than other devices when running at 100%. 


First of all, I'm not the one who started the comparisons and since someone already did and this is in the Gaming Discussion section, let's keep the comparisons to the gaming portion of the iPad and the Vita. That 10-hour battery life is just for web browsing and video/music playing. Playing a game like Infinity Blade II will lower the battery lfe considerably.