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bonzobanana on 24 February 2017
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Goodnightmoon said:
Lawlight said:

3hr47min to be exact. There's a test out there. So, 59min. Zelda is still an offline game. Playing on wifi will consume more juice.

That's not the same test I found, but there were more intensive games on Vita, just take a look at Killzone Mercenary

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/620277-killzone-mercenary/67278510

2h -2.5h of battery. Offline. Lol. That's less than Zelda on Switch and a similar thing happens with games like Freedom Wars

I highly doubt Splatoon drains battery as fast as zelda despite the Wifi, same as MK8. But we'll see that very soon.

Remember there are 2 different Vita's, the original and the slim. The original like mine is quoted as 3.5-4hrs normal runtime but the slim is up to 6hrs. Also some of the reports of low runtime for the original Vita are those who play the system on full brightness, wifi and have had their system sometime so battery capacity has fallen. We haven't yet seen those figures for Switch yet.

I love my Vita because of the amazing OLED display but personally I think 4 hours should be the bare minimum for a portable under all conditions it's something my Vita, original 3DS and the Switch fails at. I used to love the long battery life of my DS lite. You could take it away for a day trip and never worry about charging it knowing you'd have use of it for all travelling and some bonus time too. Also I remember the screen of the DS lite being much better in the sun maybe because of the clamshell design meaning I could protect it from reflections etc. It was just a go anywhere, use anywhere device.

Thinking about future revisions of the Switch I'd personally like a smaller screen I think with more work on making it a better portable without losing the home console experience.