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walsufnir on 23 August 2016
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KBG29 said:
walsufnir said:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/ps4-controller-battery-life-how-to-make-your-dualshock-4-last-longer

Point *ONE*.

People which are using it on PC are able to turn it completely off, even more benefitting the battery life of the controller.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4r22bm/if_youre_using_a_ds4_controller_turn_the_lightbar/

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With my PS4 the controller lasts about 4-6 hours. When using on my PC with bluetooth, it lasts as much as 10-12 hours with the light bar switched off completely.

There is an option to do this in the settings of both pieces of software and is relatively simple to do.

Obviously not applicable for those that play wired.

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Not sure how he is testing that, because the DS4 only contains (1) small LED and it is only capable of pulling 20mAh. So the light would last 50 hours fully lit all by itself. In a 4 - 6 hour period it could only use 80 - 120mAh of 1000mAh. 

You can see that the DS4 lightbar at full uses almost exactly 20mAh by watching the test in this link:

http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/DS4_Mods

In the link he tests it once with the light on and once with it off. The DS4 contains a 1000mAh battery that lasts 9 Hours and 30 Minutes with the light bar on. With the light bar off the battery last 11 Hours and 20 Minutes. A roughly 20% increase in battery life, reaffirming the ~20mAh of the LED. 

So as I said before, if you went from the current 'dim' setting on the DS4 to no LED at all, you would get about a 10% increase in battery life. They can take the light away, but it is only going to give you a little over an hour more life. If they want to increase controller life, they have to put in a bigger battery. a 2400mAh battery would give you about 15 - 20 hours of random gameplay and video watching, which should be more than enough to make it through a full day of gaming with a re-charge each night (Unless you are doing a marathon, then that is well beyond normal use, and there ain't no way they will do that for the few that would ever utilize it).

 

So you think that a 2 hour increase is not worth it to let people disable the light at all? Even 10% is better than nothing, isn't it?

They don't have to take it away - they just have to put in the option to disable it completely for those who don't have any interest in it and the products which are supposed to make use of it.