Goodnightmoon said:
S.Peelman said:
Uhuh. Now look at a post made just half-an-hour after yours. If you lasted only 8 hours with your GameBoy you had sucky batteries. I brought my GameBoys on holidays for weeks and never changed batteries during. Besides, batteries were also rechargable if needed to, so it's the same. If you bought the correct ones initially of course.
But in any case that was hardly the main point, that statement was merely the lead-up, to the question of how low battery-life must go before it's not acceptable anymore? 2 hours? 1 hour? Or will portability soon require a full charge-pack 100% of the time? I know I'm picking on Switch, but it goes for every modern device. We're now living with devices that only hold out a tenth of the time their old predecessors could. Battery technology needs a giant leap forward sooner rather than later.
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Game Boy POCKET had 8-10 battery life, look it up.
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I don't know what you two are debating but I'm going to chime in.
I have an original Gameboy right this second. When I was a kid, I used these AA gold Rite Aid alkaline batteries that used to last 20 hours. My cousin and I tested a billion brands and, for whatever reason, those were the best. I was in high school and he was in middle school. I know how long they were supposed to last but that's how long they lasted. We accepted no substitute.
Also, the original Gameboy used four batteries. The Gameboy pocket only used two. Not sure how relevant that is but I'm just saying.
Carry on.
