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The PSP/DS Thread
mariomessias - Jun 14, 2004

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  schi0249 Sep 24, 2004
Also, I'm sure a FF caliber RPG with lots of FMV's will eat the battery as well.

 Cloud121 Sep 24, 2004
If it's a rechargable battery ala GB SP, then 8 hours isnt that bad.

The SP has a 10 hour battery life.

8 hours from a disc based device is kinda surprising.

 Dud Sep 24, 2004
That's pretty shitty, but not nearly as bad as I would have thought.

Every time I look at that machine I can feel arthritis starting to develop in my hands. :biglaugh

 The Man Sep 24, 2004
I think that 8 hours is more than most of us need, i'd be using the power supply to save battery, that what i do with my nomad, and my gba sp.


  
	
	

		
		

			RolfWrenWalsh: If it's a rechargable battery ala GB SP, then 8 hours isnt that bad.


Not quite fair to compare two different kinds of portables, both have different kinds of power consumptions.

 ExCyber Sep 24, 2004
Look at the pricetag and features; PSP isn't competing with GBA/DS as much as it's competing with the entertainment half of PocketPC. As for battery life, well, it looks like anything that uses the drive much is going to kill it quick, the drive seems to use several times more power than the rest of the system combined. Developers will probably be heavily encouraged to limit disc activity. Personally, unless a homebrew scene gets going on this I'd rather have a GP32

 racketboy Sep 24, 2004
And at $150 starting price, the DS looks more like it will be in my future

 gameboy900 Sep 27, 2004
Sony has pulled off some amazing battery saving shit in the past. My MiniDisc player can go for a good 40 hours on ONE AA battery. Granted that's only playing music but it's still pretty good considering it's a disc medium.

 Darsh Oct 17, 2004
I have to say it's not really an issue unless you're going to be watching movies on the PSP. I mean at least it's no NOMAD, haha.

I'm not on the road enough to get a portable system anyways. So I'd rather save money and not get either DS or PSP.

 schi0249 Oct 17, 2004
I have to agree. The music battery time is very good. And as for games, up to 8 hrs isn't terrible. It's just not great. And as for movies, I wouldn't expect much more than that. Both my laptops, on a full charge, have about 2-3 hours of movie time.

 Alexvrb Oct 23, 2004
Compare the battery capacity to Nintendo's unit and I think you'll find the PSP is eating a lot more power regardless. Meaning the battery figures include the fact that they're using the best batteries they can reasonably use at this time. Let's hope the batteries can be recharged a bazillion times before they start to really lose capacity, because I can't think an OE or better replacement would be cheap.


  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by it290+-->
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8 hours isn't too bad, although I'm sure that will vary considerably depending on what the game does (example: A Space Channel 5-type game has to read from the disc a lot more than say, Ikaruga does). If they would just rotate the screen 90 degrees, I'd probably buy one.[/b]

Yeah, but you're an arcade freak. Most people like 16:9 widescreen, and all the COOL kids have it. Plus they're trying to push their retarded proprietary UMD crap for movies. Everyone movie dork knows 16:9 == win. Even though you could just physically rotate the device for movies as they don't require you to push buttons.

Oh, and yeah any game with lots of movies or that otherwise loads a lot from the disc will eat battery life like candy. Sweet, sweet candy.