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Soundwave on 14 April 2017
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hunter_alien said:
Soundwave said:

PSP came out at a time where USB charging stations/outlets in airplanes/buses was rare and so were cheap ion-lithium battery packs. Not to mention said battery packs are handy to have for charging ones phone as well. 

Completely different time. 

And the PSP sold 80 million anyway.

Yeah, it sold well, but one of the main derogatives it got was the battery life. I had a battery pack attachemnt that pretty much double the battery life for 30$. If that was not cheap, I dont know what was. Now with 3 hours.... Im sorry, but for a portable system its absolutly horrible, no matter how you try and spin it, especially for a system of its size.

As opposed to what else? My laptop has a giant ass battery in it, but guess what? After about 2 1/2 hours of playing BioShock Infinite on low/medium settings it dies. 

High end games require high end juice. No ifs, ands, or buts. Seriously though I really wonder how people have more that 3 consecutive hours per day to sit outside of their home playing video games. Even as a kid, I had friends to interact with and could play Game Boy maybe 30-40 minutes on the bus/recess time combined before getting home. 

The Switch is a clever design too in that at home you simply put it into the dock and are forced to dock to play on TV, so it's a clever way to basically ensure the system is at 100% charge most of the time when ever you feel like leaving the house with it. It's not like a Game Boy that gets buried under a bunch of dirty clothes or something in a messy bedroom.