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Miyamotoo on 08 December 2016
bigtakilla said:
Miyamotoo said:

Biggest gain for Pascal Tegra is more energy efficient and higher clocs.

Only one month left. ;)

Exactly. Hell, it may not use specifically either and be a custom chip somewhere in between. Either way, I hope they discuss everything in Jan.

Well actually it is custom Tegra chip, but most likely Pascal base custom Tegra chip.

January it is. :)



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Manlytears on 08 December 2016

5 hours is a good start, imho, 5 hours is the minimum acceptable and +7 would be great.

Just remember, 5 hours from the box soon becomes 4 hours, or less, after some battery cycles and the battery getting old.



bigtakilla on 08 December 2016
Miyamotoo said:
bigtakilla said:

Exactly. Hell, it may not use specifically either and be a custom chip somewhere in between. Either way, I hope they discuss everything in Jan.

Well actually it is custom Tegra chip, but most likely Pascal base custom Tegra chip.

January it is. :)

Unreal Engine 4 looks good on it too. Hopefully it's not smoke and mirrors of CG. A Xenoblade looking like that (even at 720p), YES PLEASE!!!



stamps1646 on 08 December 2016

5 to 8, so probably 4 1/2 hours. =)



Mike321 on 08 December 2016

8 hours would be beautiful but I'm good with at least 5.



                                                                                     

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HyrulianScrolls on 09 December 2016

8 hours would be insane and better than anyone could have realistically hoped for. But I'm sure it will be closer to 5, which is what I expected. Not great but not a dealbreaker.



ktay95 on 10 December 2016
Jranation said:
8 would probably be at the lowest brightnest and some power saving shit.

8 is minimum brightness, power save mode on, all wireless functions off and sitting in the home menu not pressing a button



Jranation on 10 December 2016
ktay95 said:
Jranation said:
8 would probably be at the lowest brightnest and some power saving shit.

8 is minimum brightness, power save mode on, all wireless functions off and sitting in the home menu not pressing a button

Dang! That is some next gen shit happenin! 



Pocky Lover Boy! 

Lonely_Dolphin on 10 December 2016

8 hours!? Sure, and the Switch will also be able to fit in my pocket!



Soundwave on 10 December 2016

6-8 hours honestly is probably minimum brightness/no WiFi while playing a Virtual Console game.

3-4 hours is still what I expect for regular Switch games that really push the hardware.