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How much battery capacity will the NX handheld get?

1300 - 1600 mAH (f.e. New... 8 10.13%
 
1600 - 1800 mAh 6 7.59%
 
1800 - 2000 mAh (f.e. iPhone 6S/6S+) 14 17.72%
 
2000 - 2400 mAh (f.e. PSVita) 20 25.32%
 
2400 - 2800 mAh (f.e. Galaxy S6, Z5 compact) 5 6.33%
 
2800 - 3200 mAh (f.e. Galaxy S6 edge plus) 7 8.86%
 
3200 - 3600 mAh (f.e. Nexus 6P, Z5 premium) 5 6.33%
 
3600 - 4000 mAh 5 6.33%
 
more than 3600 mAh 9 11.39%
 
Total:79
Conina on 10 January 2016
jason1637 said:
hershel_layton said:

Hopefully you're not serious. 


http://www.techlicious.com/guide/six-android-phones-with-great-battery-life/

The HTC one Maz can do 25 hours and is $230 and pretty powerful. The 3ds launched with $250 price point. I could see Nintendo adopting the parts from phones for the NX handheld. 

Yeah, good luck trying to play games on these devices for 24 hours (or even 8 hours) without running out of power!

These 21 - 29 hours of your URL are talk time (making phone calls with the display off and the SoC idling).

 

Here is how these phones behave, if they have to render and display a video game with demanding graphics: 3 - 4 hours.

With light-weight games like Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, visual novels or turn-based RPGs the battery time will be better (probably 5 - 8 hours), because the SoC can go into idle mode more often, but that's it.





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ktay95 on 10 January 2016

Wtf, the 3DS and WiiU batteries are garbage
No wonder they die so damn quick.
Anyway if it can achieve say 6 hours under heavy load (max brightness, WiFi etc.) then I'd be happy I guess.



Johnw1104 on 10 January 2016

That's a difficult balance. History says that battery life is second perhaps only to the exclusive games themselves in importance when it comes to handhelds... It seems anything under 4 hours just about dooms it. Many technically superior handhelds have been sunk by short battery life as, after all, the whole point is for it to be portable.

If they really want to make the handheld capable of running games akin to what will be on their main console, though, that could prove very difficult while maintaining a reasonable price... Perhaps the home console is weaker than most expect?

Very curious to see how this plays out.



archer9234 on 10 January 2016
Johnw1104 said:

Perhaps the home console is weaker than most expect?

Nintendo would be a laughing stock, if they went that route. If the NX can't be equal to a PS4, in basic power. You might as well go into a caged lion.





RingoGaSuki on 10 January 2016

While we're on the topic of batteries and stuff, I want the NX to use USB type C for charging, rather than Nintendo's own proprietary component. It would make finding a charger much easier, and having used it on my Nexus 6P for a few months now, I've been impressed by how fast it works.



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green_sky on 10 January 2016
RingoGaSuki said:
While we're on the topic of batteries and stuff, I want the NX to use USB type C for charging, rather than Nintendo's own proprietary component. It would make finding a charger much easier, and having used it on my Nexus 6P for a few months now, I've been impressed by how fast it works.

Great point.