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I prefer...

AA. 19 29.23%
 
Lithium. 46 70.77%
 
Total:65
Barozi on 09 April 2020
DonFerrari said:
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.

It just depends on how much you use them and how you're charging them (charging from 0% all the way to 100% is the worst you can do). Even if yours aren't dead you should notice a significant drop in battery life. I have to switch lithium batteries every 2-5 years. Doesn't really matter if it's controllers, laptops, tablets or smartphones.

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DonFerrari on 09 April 2020
Barozi said:
DonFerrari said:

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.

It just depends on how much you use them and how you're charging them (charging from 0% all the way to 100% is the worst you can do). Even if yours aren't dead you should notice a significant drop in battery life. I have to switch lithium batteries every 2-5 years. Doesn't really matter if it's controllers, laptops, tablets or smartphones.

I game about 30-40 hours a week on a regular week. And have been using these controllers for all this time without swapping batteries and almost ever 0 to 100 charges. The battery life is still enough for probably 6h or more straight play and since I keep one charging/charged while the other is in use I have 0 downtime. When it happens that co-op is needed and one drained out or my son took the control to use on the other PS4 I just plug on the outlet 1ft to my side and being wired becomes a 0 issue for me.

duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Barozi on 09 April 2020
DonFerrari said:
Barozi said:

It just depends on how much you use them and how you're charging them (charging from 0% all the way to 100% is the worst you can do). Even if yours aren't dead you should notice a significant drop in battery life. I have to switch lithium batteries every 2-5 years. Doesn't really matter if it's controllers, laptops, tablets or smartphones.

I game about 30-40 hours a week on a regular week. And have been using these controllers for all this time without swapping batteries and almost ever 0 to 100 charges. The battery life is still enough for probably 6h or more straight play and since I keep one charging/charged while the other is in use I have 0 downtime. When it happens that co-op is needed and one drained out or my son took the control to use on the other PS4 I just plug on the outlet 1ft to my side and being wired becomes a 0 issue for me.

Well it's not really a surprise when you keep switching controllers (and thus batteries). The situation would probably look quite different if you used only one. I always have a primary controller (on 360 the one with the faceplate and on X1 the revised controller that came with the X).

DonFerrari on 09 April 2020
Barozi said:
DonFerrari said:

I game about 30-40 hours a week on a regular week. And have been using these controllers for all this time without swapping batteries and almost ever 0 to 100 charges. The battery life is still enough for probably 6h or more straight play and since I keep one charging/charged while the other is in use I have 0 downtime. When it happens that co-op is needed and one drained out or my son took the control to use on the other PS4 I just plug on the outlet 1ft to my side and being wired becomes a 0 issue for me.

Well it's not really a surprise when you keep switching controllers (and thus batteries). The situation would probably look quite different if you used only one. I always have a primary controller (on 360 the one with the faceplate and on X1 the revised controller that came with the X).

Considering some are saying they had 5 DS replaced because of battery, or that my PS3 control survived 12 years without issue. And even cycling the controllers I probably had like 500 cycles of charge on each and 0 issue so far. So I really can't say the battery is an issue.

John2290 said:
DonFerrari said:

I game about 30-40 hours a week on a regular week. And have been using these controllers for all this time without swapping batteries and almost ever 0 to 100 charges. The battery life is still enough for probably 6h or more straight play and since I keep one charging/charged while the other is in use I have 0 downtime. When it happens that co-op is needed and one drained out or my son took the control to use on the other PS4 I just plug on the outlet 1ft to my side and being wired becomes a 0 issue for me.

Before the pandemic? On a regular weekly basis throughout the year? How? How do you mange to get 40 hours a week for gaming? 

Priorities =]

During pandemic I could probably double it or even get 100h a week.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 09 April 2020
John2290 said:
DonFerrari said:

Considering some are saying they had 5 DS replaced because of battery, or that my PS3 control survived 12 years without issue. And even cycling the controllers I probably had like 500 cycles of charge on each and 0 issue so far. So I really can't say the battery is an issue.

Priorities =]

During pandemic I could probably double it or even get 100h a week.

Wow. I can do the 8 hours a day for a week or two during a really big release if it's addicting enough and the same for FF14. But I don't know how you can keep it up indefinitely, that's some serious time but more power to ya. Can I ask though, how do you deal with fatigue or burn out? Do you even get fatigued or burned out? Restless and all that when choosing what to play? I've a problem that when I have more time than I know what to do with I end up doing nothing at allin both games, media and life and during this pandemic I'd really like to be able to fix that. I cut the lawn today then stared at my phone for two hours barely even taking in what I was doing, It's nauseating, any advice?

Well I have hundred games so I'm always playing something new. And sure During the week is more like 3h a day (that not counting the 1-2h of smarthphone gaming in 20min sessions) and then on the weekend I go over 10h each day.

I would say that what help me is mixing content and double things, like watching/listening a light series or anime while playing something that story or sound isn't great so I can divide my concentration. The second thing is listing what I want to do. So I know more or less then next 2 or 3 games I want to plat =]



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 09 April 2020
John2290 said:
DonFerrari said:

Well I have hundred games so I'm always playing something new. And sure During the week is more like 3h a day (that not counting the 1-2h of smarthphone gaming in 20min sessions) and then on the weekend I go over 10h each day.

I would say that what help me is mixing content and double things, like watching/listening a light series or anime while playing something that story or sound isn't great so I can divide my concentration. The second thing is listing what I want to do. So I know more or less then next 2 or 3 games I want to plat =]

Amy suggestions for anime or something to listen to, I feel I've ran out of all media that isn't on Netflix or YouTube. Podcasts by any chance? And I'll try the listing thing, sounds like a good idea. 

My first choice was to look for the dubbed in my language with silly storyline, then isekai (if you write it there will be like 10 different ones and almost all are very good).

Do you like a favorite genre for me to suggest? For music these days I was listening dance music from 90s in Brazil we call then "poperô" (pump up the jam) 



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 09 April 2020
John2290 said:
DonFerrari said:

My first choice was to look for the dubbed in my language with silly storyline, then isekai (if you write it there will be like 10 different ones and almost all are very good).

Do you like a favorite genre for me to suggest? For music these days I was listening dance music from 90s in Brazil we call then "poperô" (pump up the jam) 

Cheers, I'll give it a try if I can find one of those Animeram like sites streaming, they seem to have clamped down on that site now unfortunately. 

In Brazil I would say crunchyrool is quite cheap and good on content, netflix have plenty of animes, also seems like amazon prime shopped around for most relevant anime. Do you have any of these streamming services?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 09 April 2020
John2290 said:
DonFerrari said:

In Brazil I would say crunchyrool is quite cheap and good on content, netflix have plenty of animes, also seems like amazon prime shopped around for most relevant anime. Do you have any of these streamming services?

Yeah, Netflix is my go to. Prime is a click away to buy back in and looking now, I do have crunchy roll on my ps4 dashboard, I'll give it a look if hopefully I can get it on the laptop.

crunchyroll works on smartphones, consoles, tvs and PCs web browser.

You can play almost 100% content for free with ads (something like 1min ad every 8-10min). It won't have the latest release in popular series (so you have to wait 1 week for the episode of Naruto, One Piece and the like) and the dubbed versions of most releases.

Here I'm paying 5USD/month because of the bad currency ratio right now, but compared to minimum wage it is 2,5% of it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."