YAY ANOTHER NGP THREAD

The recently announced PSP2, codenamed Next Generation Portable, has a battery life of between four and five hours, Eurogamer has been told by a source.

Six to eight hours of life was Sony's original target, Eurogamer understands.

Sony announced the NGP this morning at a Tokyo press, but failed to discuss the device's battery life.

It did, however, reveal specifications.

The NGP boasts a ARM Cortex A9 (4 core) PU, a SGX543MP4 GPU, a five inch (16:9), 960 x 544, 16 million colours OLED screen, and a multi touch pad on the back.

Then there's a Sixaxis motion sensing system, a three-axis electronic compass, and built-in GPS and Wi-Fi location service support.

As for wireless, expect 3G mobile network connectivity, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.

The NGP's four to five hour battery life is similar to that of the Nintendo 3DS. Depending on the level of brightness used and whether you're playing a 3DS-specific game, the Nintendo 3DS should last between three and five hours on a single charge.

NGP pricing is also yet to be revealed, but Eurogamer was told this morning that Sony will "make a loss".

Eurogamer's Oli Welsh is in Tokyo now and on the hunt for official, Sony-endorsed answers.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-27-source-ngp-battery-life-is-4-5-hours

Sold at a loss? PS3 portable confirmed.

Battery life seems OK to me. Good enough considering the huge screen.

Looking at the specs I think it's a given that they have to sell it at a loss or else it would be too expensive.

With these specs, selling it at a loss is pretty much a given. Sony has always done that, I don't think that they'll be changing their mathod of doing business anytime soon!

Good on the battery life, though. Quite the feat with these specs!

With the history of how Nintendo and Sony estimate performance, I would expect the PSP2's battery life to be 3 hours while the 3DS's will probably be closer to 6 to 8 hours; Nintendo's estimates tend to be based on "real world" usage while Sony tends to report their best case scenarios.

With that said, with this system announced I would expect it to be released later than people think (mid 2012), cost more than people are currently imagining ($350 to $500), or for Sony to be hemorrhaging money from hardware losses; and (potentially) some combination of the three.

Sounds fine as long as it doesn't take 3.5 hours to recharge.

Heh, that's not only the case of battery life btw, at the time looking at 'theoretical' PS2 specs made GC so outdated =)

But here's the thing that worries me much:

We announced the other day that the battery duration for playing Nintendo 3DS games on it is about three to five hours. When I measured it by playing several Nintendo games, with the backlight set to the brightest level and the power save mode turned off, battery duration was about three hours. But if you use the power save mode under the same conditions, it gets about 10-20% longer. And if you set the backlight to the darkest setting, the battery lasts five hours, but the power save mode makes less of a difference then.

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interview.html#/how-nintendo-3ds-made/1/0

UPD: But here's a good thing:

In StreetPass mode, the system isn't always communicating, so there isn't much of a drain on the battery, but games that communicate a lot through local play and online play—with the backlight set to high—have an over 10% effect on the battery.

So like with DSi you don't need to turn WiFi (StreetPass) off to keep battery drain low, if it's not communcating it won't effect battery life. This makes perfect sense.

Battery life sounds good!

it could be false 

never jump on the source bandwagon because they aren't always correct