| Wright said: I'm the only one who thinks that even 8 hour is way too low? That we've set the battery life standard so low already and it keeps going down the drain even more, and no one seems to care? Seriously, 8 hours at best is a disaster. Sure, "full games portability" and whatever. It's still too low. My 3DS runs out of power like crazy, and I have to constantly have it charged every three sessions because it keeps going down to red. Which defeats the entire purpose of portability. Things that you're supposed to play "anywhere" should at the bare minimun hold half a day, 12 hours. Unreasonable? Or is it that we've become way too conformists with the crappy battery life standard we have these days? Just picture that Nintendo advert of the dude playing in a plane. Now, I can get behind the idea that you wouldn't necessarily be playing during the whole trip, but there are trips indeed that would take more than the Switch battery life. Or even this, you played some of it yesterday, (not necessarily a massive amount, just one or two hours) and you board a 4-hour trip but forget to simply recharge that one/two hour you played. You're fucked if you expected Switch to carry you through and you bring demanding games (which I doubt those allow for the full 8 hour mark before your console turns off). Sure, bring a portable battery charger, but you're already carrying extra shit with you because the battery life is such trash. Rant over I guess, but yeah, not happy with these news at all. It's less about Switch itself than the terrible life battery expectance we've come to embrace, though. |
The last portable device that gave you that much battery life didn't have built-in WiFi, was on a much smaller and screen and had FAR weaker hardware. To get that experience, you'd have to turn off the WiFi on your handheld and stick to VC games. I'm pretty sure you want more out of your 3DS and Switch than that. :)
I don't think being content with five hours is "settling." Not for me at least, because outside of a plane trip, I can't think of any situations where I have five hours to play video games away from home and not within convenient range of an outlet. Maybe when I was a kid, but not now.
