Battery lives matter!

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Captain_Yuri said:

Goodnightmoon said:

If is more than 5 hours I would be extremely surprised, this thing has 3-5 hours written all over its face which fits japanese lifestyle fine, mobiles, the most popular handheld gaming device, lasts few hours when gaming

Yea but phones also have other things that drain the battery like LTE and GPS. Not to mention phones generally have a higher resolution screen and have tons of non-gaming related background tasks running.

I think 5 hours is not that unreasonable to ask with decent power settings like medium brightness, powersaving mode and etc. Also that the Switch's screen is 720p vs phones these days have 1440p resolution. On top of that, while in undocked mode, the Switch's GPU runs at 307 mhz which is very little compared to the usual 1Ghz Tegra X1 GPU as well as the CPU runs at half the speed as a normal Tegra X1. Maybe the joycons themselves also help with the battery when they are attached to it since the joycons have their own battery but who knows if that is the case.

(Sorry for the late reply, my internet went RIP)

Phones do other stuff, but unlike gaming devices, they are not designed to run at full speed the whole time they're in use - which in turn have a dramatic effect on power consumption, and therefore battery life.