The fact that, unlike the 3ds and all previous generations, the games on Switch will be home console quality titles and not super cheap budget games like all handheld games are, makes me not want to complain about battery life.
Hopefully its a fair 5-8hrs
5 being full brightness and everything on and 8 being as stated lower brightness, lower volume, less cpu/gpu intensive game etc. Nintendo are normally pretty fair with battery life claims in my experience. So if this does become the official runtime I'll believe it.
4-5 hours is good enough. Anything above that and odds are you are throttling the chip massively which isn't a good thing.
It's like having a 8 cylinder car but only letting it fire on 4 cylinders to save on gas money.
I'd rather have 4 hours at a higher performance than 6-8 hours with shittier performance.
| Dulfite said: The fact that, unlike the 3ds and all previous generations, the games on Switch will be home console quality titles and not super cheap budget games like all handheld games are, makes me not want to complain about battery life. |
So it could last 10 seconds and you'd be okay with that? :L
Seriously though, home console quality is fine and good, but above all they should make sure it's still a good portable, that's what the majority of their userbase plays on.
That would be fantastic for its power. Definitely an improvement over my laptop which is only 2 hours unplugged.
| Wright said: 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. |
The last portable device that gave you that much battery life didn't have built-in WiFi, was on a much smaller and screen and had FAR weaker hardware. To get that experience, you'd have to turn off the WiFi on your handheld and stick to VC games. I'm pretty sure you want more out of your 3DS and Switch than that. :)
I don't think being content with five hours is "settling." Not for me at least, because outside of a plane trip, I can't think of any situations where I have five hours to play video games away from home and not within convenient range of an outlet. Maybe when I was a kid, but not now.
Pokemon go players would be happy to use their power banks on the Switch XD I have about 3 btw!
Pocky Lover Boy!
After the wiiu I expect a larger battery as an optional extra bought separately
If I can play on the Switch screen while it is plugged in will make a difference to me.
| burninmylight said: The last portable device that gave you that much battery life didn't have built-in WiFi, was on a much smaller and screen and had FAR weaker hardware. To get that experience, you'd have to turn off the WiFi on your handheld and stick to VC games. I'm pretty sure you want more out of your 3DS and Switch than that. :) I don't think being content with five hours is "settling." Not for me at least, because outside of a plane trip, I can't think of any situations where I have five hours to play video games away from home and not within convenient range of an outlet. Maybe when I was a kid, but not now. |
It doesn't matter whether I want more or less of an experience (for the record, I hardly ever play online - if any at all, on consoles -), it's just that five hours is an atrocity. My laptop can't barely lasts 6 hours (under minimal brightness!), and if I have to stick it around in power sources that much time, the "portability" aspect of it becomes moot. It screws me up when I'm at class, because depending on which one (or the assigment I'm doing) I can't connect it anywhere. It's just dumb. Anything less than half a day shouldn't be acceptable.
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