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Mummelmann on 26 February 2017
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Goodnightmoon said:
Mummelmann said:

That wasn't my point at all; battery life isn't measured in minutes for most people, 10-20 minutes difference is of little consequence, one way or the other. Adding 14 minutes of batterly life isn't some earth-shattering feat; it's basically worthless in the grand scheme of things and battery life is still poor. Because that what it is, 3 hours and 3 minutes is poor battery life, the Switch actually has a couple of cons, regardless of your attempts at a valiant defence on every single possible front with this device. And it's okay, it has plenty of pros as well. Enjoy yours and just keep it charged whenever you can and you'll be fine.

Oh, and by the way, my phone lasts 10-11 hours with intensive tasks such as 1440p video (not that I use it for that...), so I'm not sure what phone you have, but it sounds like it could be time for a new one.

Now try to play on it with anything remotely comparable to an AAA game and see your battery dissapearing in 2 hours if you are lucky. For today standarts 3 hours of portable AAA gaming is good, and for that price is simply fantastic, even laptops and mobiles 2 and 3 times more expensive than Switch rarely go above 3 hour when playing something intensive on them.

PS Vita Slim sported a 5-6 hour battery life for gaming (with Wifi and Bluetooth and perhaps even background tasks being done), PS Vita around 3 hours and 30 minutes, DS Lite 5 hours + on highest illumination, 2DS has about 3 hours and 30 minutes or more.

The Switch really doesn't have great battery life, even in handheld territory. Gaming on mobile isn't really the same thing, a smartphone is a multi-purpose device that happens to be able to play games as well while the Switch is more or less purely for gaming (it sure can't do much else out of the box anyway) so the smartphone has great battery life for its intended purpose. As for laptops; how often do you see gamers playing heavy games on a laptop without the charger plugged in? Extremely rare, to say the least, laptops are also used for a wide range of other tasks, most use it on the go for media and as a portable office for writing, e-mail, browsing the web, homework and reports etc. Go to any coffee shop, subway station, airplane, university campus or other venues and see how many people gaming on laptops you can find, I can guarantee you there will be only a tiny amount, I don't think I ever saw a human being gaming on a laptop in a coffeeshop, for instance. Gaming laptops are really rare and crazy expensive, and they're not even any good, which is why hardly anyone buys them, in all my years as a PC nerd, I've met two people who owned gaming laptops, both were teenagers who got them from their parents...

So, speaking of poor comparisons, are these the best attempts you can make at deflecting that a product has poor battery life? How about this; stop rationalizing and accept both that the Switch has an underwhelming battery life and that this doesn't have to be a big issue, I know it isn't for me anyway, I only wrote my first post because the added time was so ridiculously low and the end result is still subpar and I found it more than a little funny how this was hailed as great news for anyone.