When Nintendo Strikes The 3DS Down, The Switch Will Become More Powerful Than Ever

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StarOcean said:

superchunk said:

I wouldn't call it shitty. I've taken it on plane trips, to work, etc. ~3hrs is actually pretty good considering I can charge it between sessions easily. Not to say 6, 12 or 20 hours wouldnt' be better of course.

Normalizing shitty battery life is not good as a handheld gamer primarily, it's been hard accepting 6hrs I get from the 3DS/Vita. It sucks, really bad. I mean what the hell happened to the 20+hrs you got off a GBA? Or hell I was fine with the 12+ you got from a DS Lite. But Sony/Nintendo have insisted on shortening the battery life in half the past few handhelds and its stupid. I mean, maybe as a casual thing 3hrs might be fine. But if youre someone who travels across the country all the time, this just feels like pretending the Gamepad is a handheld. Barely make it out the door (metaphorically) before it dies! No no no, maybe for a console gamer this is "pretty good", but for a handheld gamer this better not be normalized because it really is shitty. Im not going to defend Nintendo with the Switch until they themselves fix the issue. And changing the battery is not fixing it, I want them to make a model that will last at the very least... 6hrs, with a game like BotW.

There's always a option to buy two $20 dallor battory packs.. That'll get you around 15 hours on max settings