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PSP battery life official (R.I.P) kidding
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Daxter Too
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I think it will depends on the game for the battery life, kind of like how Tony Hawk for the GBA sucked the battery dry, more intensive games will do the same.
That said, I would love to see some high quality 2D games on the PSP, a Guilty Gear game would rule!
That said, I would love to see some high quality 2D games on the PSP, a Guilty Gear game would rule!
neptunes said:
right after the launch of the SP nintendo came out with an 18hour battery pack
That's not an official product from Nintnedo. 3rd party accessory. Although I think there's a 18 hour battery from Nintendo, but it didn't come out last year, that's for sure
Jonnyboy117
Member
Three hours is pretty awful. Does this mean you only get ten hours on Mahjong or Solitaire? If battery life sucks for games that tax the system, surely that applies to pretty much everything they've shown so far.
FortNinety
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Is that a USB cord? What for if so?
FortNinety said:
Is that a USB cord? What for if so?
You can hook up a SP to a laptop/computer to recharge it. But wouldn't the recharge rate be kinda....slow?
john tv said:
I don't know, I was just making stuff up. Uhm yeah.
*runs*
I wasn't sure if there was an offiical 18 hour battery
Alcibiades
Member
remember that Kutagari quote about him imagining people playing it at home or inside or something like that...
this kinda backs that up a bit...
this kinda backs that up a bit...
Alcibiades
Member
john tv said:
actually, without the light on, 18 hours is the official number for the SP battery pack...
10 hours if the light is on...
that said, I haven't charged mine in over 3 weeks and my sister and cousin have been using it and taking it on trips and surprisingly it still going even though it's probably gone over the "official" limit...
I've recharged it less than 35 times though, so the pack it still pretty fresh...
Alcibiades
Member
neptunes said:
I've seen some 3rd party ones that claim to last a lot longer than the Nintendo ones (when I worked at Best Buy), but other than that I never heard anything about Nintendo releasing some, and I check retail places all the time and I've never seen any official Nintendo ones (neither with regular hours or longer hours)...
I called it...
CPU setting 1: 8-10 hours (ex: DarkStalkers Chronicle, Bust-A-Move)
CPU setting 2: 4-6 hours (ex: Ape Escape, Death Jr)
CPU setting 3: 2-3 hours (ex: GT4 mobile, Dynasty Warriors)
...developers will determine battery expectancy, Sony's being vague on purpose here. Expect more conflicting estimations in the future...
CPU setting 1: 8-10 hours (ex: DarkStalkers Chronicle, Bust-A-Move)
CPU setting 2: 4-6 hours (ex: Ape Escape, Death Jr)
CPU setting 3: 2-3 hours (ex: GT4 mobile, Dynasty Warriors)
...developers will determine battery expectancy, Sony's being vague on purpose here. Expect more conflicting estimations in the future...
I don't get this though.
Do people not want portable gaming to advance into 3d with results that look good even by todays standard?
I mean to do all that processing you will eat up the battery fast. There is no way to have small size & reasonable pricing & long battery life where we currently are in technology.
So we either give up and accept that it has a short battery life (which does suck), or we hold out another 5-10 years for a 3d handheld (which would suck even more IMO).
Whether the system ends up being any good or not is an entirely different question. But at least the PSP is going to push the portable gaming market in a direction it really needs to go.
Do people not want portable gaming to advance into 3d with results that look good even by todays standard?
I mean to do all that processing you will eat up the battery fast. There is no way to have small size & reasonable pricing & long battery life where we currently are in technology.
So we either give up and accept that it has a short battery life (which does suck), or we hold out another 5-10 years for a 3d handheld (which would suck even more IMO).
Whether the system ends up being any good or not is an entirely different question. But at least the PSP is going to push the portable gaming market in a direction it really needs to go.
I still don't think it'll be a problem. It sounds like a crappy number, but how many people play games for more than 2-3 hours at a time anyway? As long as the battery can be recharged easily, it shouldn't be a real problem. And if you do play games more than 2-3 hours a day, then I'm sure you've got plenty of other games to play when your PSP's battery dies. 
So, yeah, while 2-3 at the least (I'm sure other games will last longer) sounds like a bad number, it really doesn't NEED more than that. What made the Game Gear such a pain was that it used AAs (I think). Modern portables are now using rechargables, it would seem, so its not a bad figure.
So, yeah, while 2-3 at the least (I'm sure other games will last longer) sounds like a bad number, it really doesn't NEED more than that. What made the Game Gear such a pain was that it used AAs (I think). Modern portables are now using rechargables, it would seem, so its not a bad figure.
is people really wanted a graphically superior handheld then the GameGear would have been successful.
I think most people are looking for a balance (price, batterlife, graphics)
It's not the matter of how long one plans to play a game in one sitting. I think it's how long is it until it has to recharge.
I think most people are looking for a balance (price, batterlife, graphics)
I still don't think it'll be a problem. It sounds like a crappy number, but how many people play games for more than 2-3 hours at a time anyway? As long as the battery can be recharged easily, it shouldn't be a real problem. And if you do play games more than 2-3 hours a day, then I'm sure you've got plenty of other games to play when your PSP's battery dies.
It's not the matter of how long one plans to play a game in one sitting. I think it's how long is it until it has to recharge.
aparisi2274
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neptunes said:
Yeah but one is from Nintendo, and one is from some 3rd party company called Dragon. Nintendo, I dont think every made a bigger battery for the GBAsp.
SolidSnakex
Member
neptunes said:
As Kaz said in that same interview, what it comes down to is software. And the GG just didn't have the software to compete.
Daxter Too
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This thread has taken a strange turn.....
ANyways, back on topic, if I can play GT4 on the PSP for at least 5 hours I'll be happy. Sony has some great tech on their side, I woulden't count them out yet.
ANyways, back on topic, if I can play GT4 on the PSP for at least 5 hours I'll be happy. Sony has some great tech on their side, I woulden't count them out yet.
SolidSnakex said:
By that logic, the Nomad would have been moderatly succesful, a technologically superior portable with good software. Sucked up the batteries like you wouldn't believe, though.
Of course, Im not saying that the PSP will not be a success due to battery life alone, but you people are forgetting something. Sure, you're playing for three hours, but how long is going to take for you to charge the battery?
SolidSnakex
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WindyMan said:
Hadn't Sega already started their system dumping by then? Start up a system, if wasn't an automatic successs, dump it, jump to another system ect ect. People had already caught onto Sega by then.
Point is the graphics are important. Maybe not enough to make something an automatic success, but they're important enough. And they were definetly needed in the handheld world where all it had was nice 2D and horrible 3D graphics.
Plus as jarrod said, the amount of power a game eats will depend on how much the developer is pushing the game. At the start anyway, there likely aren't going to be too many games that are going to eat up that much battery. There should be bigger batteries by the time those start up.
Alcibiades
Member
I think battery will be critical, even for DS which itself has a multitude of features...
I'm sure it's convenient that people can go days (even weeks if you play a few hours a week only) without recharging like with SP, and that kinda plays into the user-friendliness of the device since it's less of a hassle for people...
I think Sony is lowballing this on purpose (like Nintendo does I'm sure w/ both the SP battery life and Wavebird range), and if the official line turns out to be 5-6 hours for a videogame, then it's will be 7-8 hours...
Companies probably lowball so that consumers know what to expect AT WORST, but know that their products could go above the numbers they give...
I'm sure it's convenient that people can go days (even weeks if you play a few hours a week only) without recharging like with SP, and that kinda plays into the user-friendliness of the device since it's less of a hassle for people...
I think Sony is lowballing this on purpose (like Nintendo does I'm sure w/ both the SP battery life and Wavebird range), and if the official line turns out to be 5-6 hours for a videogame, then it's will be 7-8 hours...
Companies probably lowball so that consumers know what to expect AT WORST, but know that their products could go above the numbers they give...