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SuperNova on 07 March 2017
d21lewis said:
SuperNova said:

Thanks for confirming! That sounds about as fast of a charge as the official charger provides, so that's awesome. I'll try it out for myself now.

Thanks for confiming that it works!

Haha, ok I wont! I'm about to try it with my 2.4A charger now, also Anker. Thanks for the link, I love their producs and was going to look into a powerbank for my Switch anyways.

Let me know how the powerbank experiment went!

Let it run totally dry. On high brightness and max volume, you could almost see the battery draining.

I put the brightness back down to 75% and plugged up the power bank. After about an hour and a half of playing Zelda and charging at the same time, the battery is at 21% and the power bank still says it's at full power (4/4 LED lights). I head home soon, though. 

Thanks! That's good news right there! I know what powerbank I'm getting then. My Anker charger + USB to USBC cable also seems to charge it just fine, while playing. It's not much slower than nintendos charger I think (athough I'd have to test some more to know for sure..) and nothing gets hot.

You guys saved me 30 bucks. :D



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Volterra_90 on 07 March 2017

Love it. Playing BOTW while pooping is the most awesome gaming experience ever XD.



Soundwave on 07 March 2017

I think some of the battery life stuff is overblown anyway too.

Who has more than 3 hours away from home/on the road to sit there and play video games uniterrupted.

Even as a kid, between recess and having a social life (as in friends) I played my Game Boy maybe 1-2 hours max outside of the house a day.

Of course people are going to say "well what about on a plane/long car ride" .... well most planes/long distance trains offer USB outlets these days and even full blow plug in outlets on top of that.

The system is portable enough with the Joycons removed as well, you're going to have to put even a 3DS or Vita in a jacket pocket or something, unless you're *that* one guy who carries around his 3DS instead of his wallet/keys/smartphone.

And you can always buy a battery charger on top of that. 

You just need to take the 5 seconds to dock the system when you get home to make sure its fully charged when you head out, but that's really not a bad deal. 

People acting like it's this huge, massive device that has its battery run out in like 20 minutes are really exagerrating, it's very functional as a portable and will be more functional in the future as well with a die shrink they'll be able to increase battery life. 



monocle_layton on 08 March 2017
dongo8 said:
Gemmol31 said:
I personally cannot get enough, this may go down as my favorite system of all time, I love how beautiful games look on it, and I love that I can play these beautiful games anywhere.....people keep talking about graphics and how of a gap it is from PS4, regardless of the gap the games on it still look good, its not like it have ps2 graphics, and if Zelda can look this amazing when Nintendo said it was just a straight port with no added Switch features, makes me wonder how much more beautiful can games get if it was built from the ground up, bring it on Nintendo, I cannot wait to see what will be coming out in the next couple years, congrats for starting out strong with Zelda

(Switch friend code SW-4384-8283-7514 add me, and if you plan on getting nba 2k18 for Switch make sure you definitely add me)

Adding, 2K basketball is one of my favorite "chill" games. I play 2K all of the time and am really looking forward to getting it as well as FIFA on my Switch.

I hope we see the other sports games like Madden and NHL. If 2k can run, so can they.

Full fledged sports games on handhelds is pretty neat.

Soundwave said:

I think some of the battery life stuff is overblown anyway too.

Who has more than 3 hours away from home/on the road to sit there and play video games uniterrupted.

Even as a kid, between recess and having a social life (as in friends) I played my Game Boy maybe 1-2 hours max outside of the house a day.

Of course people are going to say "well what about on a plane/long car ride" .... well most planes/long distance trains offer USB outlets these days and even full blow plug in outlets on top of that.

The system is portable enough with the Joycons removed as well, you're going to have to put even a 3DS or Vita in a jacket pocket or something, unless you're *that* one guy who carries around his 3DS instead of his wallet/keys/smartphone.

And you can always buy a battery charger on top of that. 

You just need to take the 5 seconds to dock the system when you get home to make sure its fully charged when you head out, but that's really not a bad deal. 

People acting like it's this huge, massive device that has its battery run out in like 20 minutes are really exagerrating, it's very functional as a portable and will be more functional in the future as well with a die shrink they'll be able to increase battery life. 

I know my phone doesn't manage well when playing games. Standby mode is also pretty bad (especially compared to the Switch).

If I recall, a 3DS battery last 3-6 hours, and it played games at 240p. like you said, nothing but exaggerations about the battery. What's funnier is that many people complaining about the battery also want it to be 1080p with PS4 power :p