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kitler53 on 05 June 2012
Mr Khan said:
With a home console it's less of an issue than with a portable, you would just have to sit somewhere in your game room within cord's reach of an outlet, so long as the device allows play while plugged in (which Nintendo would be idiotic not to do).

Rechargeable batteries is the bigger thing here. I'll be able to reduce my herculean AA battery intake from this gen (though continued Wiimote use means it won't end)


maybe i'm just a spoiled brat but cords, i dunno, they just seem unexceptable now-a-days.  i'm super fucking annoyed that i have to plug my vita into my ps3 on occasion to synch my psn purchases//back up save files.  i wouldn't want to have it be an every day thing.



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Mr Khan on 05 June 2012
kitler53 said:
Mr Khan said:
With a home console it's less of an issue than with a portable, you would just have to sit somewhere in your game room within cord's reach of an outlet, so long as the device allows play while plugged in (which Nintendo would be idiotic not to do).

Rechargeable batteries is the bigger thing here. I'll be able to reduce my herculean AA battery intake from this gen (though continued Wiimote use means it won't end)


maybe i'm just a spoiled brat but cords, i dunno, they just seem unexceptable now-a-days.  i'm super fucking annoyed that i have to plug my vita into my ps3 on occasion to synch my psn purchases//back up save files.  i wouldn't want to have it be an every day thing.

I play an hour a day on average (very rarely less than that, anyway), so it would be every 3 or 4 days for me. Not that big a deal, the harder thing would be trying to remember it.



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ryuzaki57 on 05 June 2012
NintendoPie said:
I hope this was either mis-translated or just bad info.

Though... I don't think people play for 5 Hours straight that often.

I play 10 to 12h-long sessions every week-end



 

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haxxiy on 05 June 2012

In comparison, Nintendo officially stated Wii's batteries last for 60 hours without using the pointer and 30 hours using it, before launching the console back in 2006. That's quite the step down.

Bear in mind I don't recall ever getting 30 hours out of a single pack of batteries, even the top lithium ones :P



 

 

 

 

 

Sal.Paradise on 05 June 2012
haxxiy said:
In comparison, Nintendo officially stated Wii's batteries last for 60 hours without using the pointer and 30 hours using it, before launching the console back in 2006. That's quite the step down.

Bear in mind I don't recall ever getting 30 hours out of a single pack of batteries, even the top lithium ones :P




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ladyumbra on 05 June 2012

Honestly this is going to be a bigger problem in houses with multiple people using the system than it is for a solitary gamer. I can already tell my house is going to be filled with bitching over who used most of the battery and who gets an extended turn because they had to wait for charging etc. We can't even do a charge while playing thing since due to the house's layout the cord would end up stretched across the most traveled path in our home.

I understand why they didn't put a super powerful battery in the gamepad though as I imagine the cost per gamepad is already quite high construction wise.



haxxiy on 05 June 2012
Sal.Paradise said:
haxxiy said:
In comparison, Nintendo officially stated Wii's batteries last for 60 hours without using the pointer and 30 hours using it, before launching the console back in 2006. That's quite the step down.

Bear in mind I don't recall ever getting 30 hours out of a single pack of batteries, even the top lithium ones :P


It has been a time since someone catched one of those, good job!



 

 

 

 

 

NintendoPie on 05 June 2012
ryuzaki57 said:

I play 10 to 12h-long sessions every week-end

Are you ever planning on getting the Wii U?



kitler53 on 05 June 2012
Mr Khan said:
kitler53 said:
Mr Khan said:
With a home console it's less of an issue than with a portable, you would just have to sit somewhere in your game room within cord's reach of an outlet, so long as the device allows play while plugged in (which Nintendo would be idiotic not to do).

Rechargeable batteries is the bigger thing here. I'll be able to reduce my herculean AA battery intake from this gen (though continued Wiimote use means it won't end)


maybe i'm just a spoiled brat but cords, i dunno, they just seem unexceptable now-a-days.  i'm super fucking annoyed that i have to plug my vita into my ps3 on occasion to synch my psn purchases//back up save files.  i wouldn't want to have it be an every day thing.

I play an hour a day on average (very rarely less than that, anyway), so it would be every 3 or 4 days for me. Not that big a deal, the harder thing would be trying to remember it.


my playstation is pretty much the center of my time at home.  i'm on it at least 4-5 hours a day, not always gaming 'cause of netflix/blu-ray but i'm always on it.  i ended up buying an extra dual shock simply to make sure i always have a charged controller 'cause it was worth $50 to me to not to be tethered down with cords.  if i get a wii U i imagine i would feel obligated get an extra gamepad as well.



Lostplanet22 on 05 June 2012

I am way to lazy to chare my gamepads every time. My X360 controller should last a week without charging still I only start to charge it when I get disconnects =p.