Double post.

Uhuh. Now look at a post made just half-an-hour after yours. If you lasted only 8 hours with your GameBoy you had sucky batteries. I brought my GameBoys on holidays for weeks and never changed batteries during. Besides, batteries were also rechargable if needed to, so it's the same. If you bought the correct ones initially of course.

But in any case that was hardly the main point, that statement was merely the lead-up, to the question of how low battery-life must go before it's not acceptable anymore? 2 hours? 1 hour? Or will portability soon require a full charge-pack 100% of the time? I know I'm picking on Switch, but it goes for every modern device. We're now living with devices that only hold out a tenth of the time their old predecessors could. Battery technology needs a giant leap forward sooner rather than later.

Game Boy POCKET had 8-10 battery life, look it up. 

Same as the 3DS and PS Vita so that was expected. I hope we'll see a handheld with longer battery life some way down the line but I won't keep my hopes up. It's definitely good enough, though. 3DS and Vita battery life was never a problem for me.

Alright. Plant the goal-post there if you wish and ignore the point.

I got my first cell phone in high school That thing could go a week between charges. Today, my iPhone lasts about a day.

I never think about how great the battery was on my old phone though. I think of all the amazing things my iPhone can do.

The battery experience is functionally the same for me because I can charge my phone every night while I sleep. The old flip phone being able to sit by my bed all night, not plugged in, while losing no battery was impressive, but it's not something I saw any benefit from.

The original GameBoy could do two weeks worth of 2 hour days on 4 double As. Fantastic.

Docking the Switch every night gets you the same experience though so who cares?

This has pretty much been the standard battery life for all mobile/handheld devices for the last 5 years, when they running their higher end games.

It's not 2005 anymore, there are charge stations everywhere.

Game Explain just did their own Zelda battery test, they had everything turned up and fully brightness and they made sure that the screen didn't dim the entire time. They got 2hour and 28, so full battery on full everything is about what Nintendo said the battery life would be.

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So for you 7 hour gamers, do you consistently play for 7 hour stretches outside, on subways etc.? I'm sure there has to be someone that does, but it would seem to be a minuscule number of people that would play like that.

Insightful.