Eagle367 said: Let's be honest, PlayStation isn't good with their controller battery life. The true lithium ba AA comparison is switch pro vs Xbone and by far, switch beats Xbone in my opinion on that front. The battery is just a 3ds one that lasts for so damn long and is one of the easiest lithium batteries to replace. All of the advantages of AA are gone with the sort of setup switch has. And the controller takes ages to die. I don't see any advantage to AA once you look at her pro controller

I never even considered battery size. I just knew the Nintendo controllers lasted forever (aside from the Wii U game pad). Now, I know why.

Athaba said: Lithium. To change from 360 with new batteries every few days to Ps3 was a blast. I have a charging station for Ps3 and Ps4, they load over night and I never had to worry about it anymore. (I always have 2 controllers (for couch coop), so if I really play that much on a single day I just change from controller A to controller B, but that nearly never happened.I could not imagine to go back to AA.

I don't have a station for the controllers, but I always let one charging while I use the other and even when co-op is needed probably both will be fully charged.

Eagle367 said: Let's be honest, PlayStation isn't good with their controller battery life. The true lithium ba AA comparison is switch pro vs Xbone and by far, switch beats Xbone in my opinion on that front. The battery is just a 3ds one that lasts for so damn long and is one of the easiest lithium batteries to replace. All of the advantages of AA are gone with the sort of setup switch has. And the controller takes ages to die. I don't see any advantage to AA once you look at her pro controller

If we are talking about easiness to replace them PSP and PSVita batteries should also be considered, quite easy, not that expensive and chargeable on the USB.

DonFerrari said: Eagle367 said: Let's be honest, PlayStation isn't good with their controller battery life. The true lithium ba AA comparison is switch pro vs Xbone and by far, switch beats Xbone in my opinion on that front. The battery is just a 3ds one that lasts for so damn long and is one of the easiest lithium batteries to replace. All of the advantages of AA are gone with the sort of setup switch has. And the controller takes ages to die. I don't see any advantage to AA once you look at her pro controller If we are talking about easiness to replace them PSP and PSVita batteries should also be considered, quite easy, not that expensive and chargeable on the USB.

Basically no one likes AA, they just like being able to change their batteries easily and for them to last long. If lithium does that, no one will choose AA.

I have a third party AA-powered Switch controller and a Switch Pro controller. The Pro runs circles around the AA-powered controller in battery life, even though the AA-powered one doesn't feature rumble where the SP controller features HD rumble. If I can avoid having to feed my stuff new batteries, all the better. With my controllers, the sticks have worn out long before the rechargeable batteries did.

also a point to point out here: people say the batteries wear out: but the controllers would probably wear out/break before the battery goes below 70% original capacity.... especially with the switch/wiiU pros considering how LONG the cycle is. still wish the switch pro controller batteries were removable though. unlike DS4 which probably just has a pouch for a battery, the swith pro has a fully encased, hard battery. no reason to not make it removable

I use power bank for my Xbox One controller. Hahahaha xD

I don't want to use AA batteries for anything in 2020. (I didn't in 2010 either)

I would own so many dead controllers if lithium batteries were built into them. Thankfully they will always work with AA batteries.
I'm using play and charge kits for my Xbox controllers (not expensive at all) and they last for about 30 hours per charge. I have one that is pretty much dead (lasts maybe 2 hours) due to heavy usage. Totally expected result and yet still enough to be used on my 2nd controller.

Barozi said: I would own so many dead controllers if lithium batteries were built into them. Thankfully they will always work with AA batteries. I'm using play and charge kits for my Xbox controllers (not expensive at all) and they last for about 30 hours per charge. I have one that is pretty much dead (lasts maybe 2 hours) due to heavy usage. Totally expected result and yet still enough to be used on my 2nd controller.

This is so strange, I have 3 PS3 and 3 PS4 controllers that I never had any issue with the batteries. About 5 PSMove and 2 navigators also without issues. The only battery I had issue with was the one on PSP that because it was left without use for some years it swollen and I had to replace, took time to find one of the same form factor, but replacing was quite easy. Never had to replace a battery on the controllers, but had to clean them once or twice and was quite easy to dissassemble if I had to swap a battery after 5 years of use.