Will the Switch ever get a Direct competitor?

[Bofferbrauer2]

Wyrdness said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Anecdotal for both of us I guess. I never heard of such low battery life before, and couldn't find evidence of such short battery life either. Unless you guys bought the cheapest NiCd batteries, as they where total crap no matter the brand. What batteries you used mattered a lot for the Game Gear. just look here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpfvy_iZxCc

With more modern batteries the Game Gear lasted 7.5 hours, twice as long as the OG 3DS.

Duracell are the go to brand for batteries over here they weren't the cheapest and using a comparison with modern batteries is very moot because people wouldn't be using those back in 92 the same batteries when in a GB lasted 30 hours. The 3DS comparison is also moot as it's running more demanding games, the hardware is more advance, has 2 screens and the battery is rechargable.

The point was that the quality and kind of the batteries mattered, Carbon/Zinc were vastly superior in the Game Gear to NiCd batteries even then, and Duracell has and had entry-level batteries pretty much on par with no-name batteries but not much better. The Game Gear needed the batteries to hold their voltage of 3.5V much more than the Game Boy did