If you knew how batteries worked, you'd know it's likely gonna be 3-5 hours long, with graphics heavy titles like Zelda on the shorter end. Nintendo can't do magic or invent new batteries holding more juice.

Those rumoured previous dev kits were not 100% accurate, people said they close to real but not exactly same. And this guy is claiming that Switch is using Tegra X2 (Pascal based) not Tegra X1.

Nintendo can't, buy new efficient tech (Tegra x2 Pascal) and bigger battery can.

4-5 hours is what i'd expect any more would be a bonus.

8 would probably be at the lowest brightnest and some power saving shit.

However unlikely, 5-8 hours would be great! But I won't get my hopes up, 3 hours seem more plausible

There's not a chance in hell you'll get 8 hours gameplay.

8 Hours sat doing nothing on the home screen maybe.

You'll be lucky to get 5 hours.

8h of battery? idle for sure, not playing games. unless it's even more downclocked that we'd imagine on handheld mode.

will wait and see, but so far don't believe it

If its using the latest Tegra technology but with a reduced number of gpu units it can match the earlier development kit performance in graphics with lower power requirements.

I don't think I'd have a gaming session beyond 5 hours ever so its perfect for me.

Remember the wii u development kit was 352 gflops for gpu but final retail was 176 gflops so there is normally some over-capacity in the development kit. I feel the retail version of Switch will be about 400 gflops docked perhaps 200-250 in portable mode. This would work perfectly with about 5-8hrs use.

I'm the only one who thinks that even 8 hour is way too low? That we've set the battery life standard so low already and it keeps going down the drain even more, and no one seems to care? Seriously, 8 hours at best is a disaster.

Sure, "full games portability" and whatever. It's still too low. My 3DS runs out of power like crazy, and I have to constantly have it charged every three sessions because it keeps going down to red. Which defeats the entire purpose of portability. Things that you're supposed to play "anywhere" should at the bare minimun hold half a day, 12 hours. Unreasonable? Or is it that we've become way too conformists with the crappy battery life standard we have these days?

Just picture that Nintendo advert of the dude playing in a plane. Now, I can get behind the idea that you wouldn't necessarily be playing during the whole trip, but there are trips indeed that would take more than the Switch battery life. Or even this, you played some of it yesterday, (not necessarily a massive amount, just one or two hours) and you board a 4-hour trip but forget to simply recharge that one/two hour you played. You're fucked if you expected Switch to carry you through and you bring demanding games (which I doubt those allow for the full 8 hour mark before your console turns off). Sure, bring a portable battery charger, but you're already carrying extra shit with you because the battery life is such trash.

Rant over I guess, but yeah, not happy with these news at all. It's less about Switch itself than the terrible life battery expectance we've come to embrace, though.

8 hours? I wish that was the case..