torok on 05 February 2013
| Devil_Survivor said: Yeah, this is news to me too. I didn't think you could increase the battery life of a system with a firmware update :P. I bought the Nyko 3rd party battery for my 3DS and that really increased the battery life of my 3DS. Anyway, of course Sony should increase the battery at the expense of the CPU since it already outperforms the 3DS in that area. Battery life is super important for handhelds, look at the original Gameboy it won a console war with its battery life alone lol. |
Battery life isn't a big issue nowadays. It just can't be abysmal at the point we can't get a reasonable gameplay session. In this point. both the Vita and the 3DS are fine. It was important back then because these handhelds didn't had rechargeable batteries. Game Gear would use 6 batteries in 4 hours and that would become expensive really quick. Actually, I wouldn't prefer the original Gameboy with 10~12 hours using 4 batteries over a Vita with 4~5 hours just because in the last case I won't need to buy batteries to supply the console.
