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Sony to PSP Coders: Battery Life Your Problem

Posted by Zonk on from the here-catch! dept.

AssaultOnBattery writes "The fine folks over at GamesIndustry.biz are reporting that Sony has found a unique solution to the problem of battery life on the PSP - making their game developers solve it for them. According to the story, Sony is going to give devs a battery emulator which will tell them if their game is within acceptable power consumption limits."

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  1. Conservation = Improved Efficiency by mabu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This doesn't surprise me at all.

    How much advancement in battery technology has there been verses advancement in power conservation? We haven't developed fuels that get better milage; we've developed vehicles that use fuel more efficiently. We haven't developed better cell phone batteries; we've developed better cell phones and other electronic devices that use power more effectively.

    Moore's law certainly doesn't apply to reserve energy resources.

    This is why I find it frustrating that the government's solution to oil revolves around finding more/cheaper oil. It never has and never will be a solution. Just like it's not a solution to wear a battery belt pack to have a longer-living laptop. It's all about conservation and energy efficiency. At least the electronics industry knows this. Some other industries act like they don't.