| RolStoppable said: I'd like to know more about charging the battery to only 90%. It improves the life expectation of the battery, but at the same time it reduces the playtime per charge by 5-15 minutes depending on the game? Is that the tradeoff? |
Yes, it could be useful for handheld gamers, who play very much with it and have hundreds of charging cycles.
Just an example, if the battery degradation would be 4% per year when always charging to 100% but only 2% per year when always charging to 90%.
charging to 100%:
- year 1 = 100%
- year 2 = 96%
- year 3 = 92%
- year 4 = 88%
- year 5 = 84%
- year 6 = 80%
- year 7 = 76%
- year 8 = 72%
- year 9 = 68%
charging to 90%:
- year 1 = 90%
- year 2 = 90%
- year 3 = 90%
- year 4 = 90%
- year 5 = 90%
- year 6 = 90%
- year 7 = 88%
- year 8 = 86%
- year 9 = 84%
But if the Switch 2 is a secondary device to you or you don't play it that often, the battery degredation will be lower anyways... probably not worth the limitation in the first years.
Also, if you plan to switch (no pun intended) to an Switch 2 OLED in a few years and sell the launch model, enjoy the 91 - 100% in these first years... the higher battery degredation ain't your problem but the problem of the second hand buyer. 
