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Nintendo 3DS Battery Is Quick To Die and Slow To Charge
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Opposable Thumbs blog:
"The battery in the Nintendo 3DS is as bad as we had feared, and it's a major impediment to enjoying the system. ... With the screen at a reasonable brightness, 3D and wireless turned off when the game allowed it, and no sound, we were about to get to a little over 4.5 hours of playtime. If you like a brighter screen, keep 3D turned on, or if you have that speaker going, that time is only going to go down. ... Using the cradle whenever the system isn't being played is a habit you're going to want to pick up, especially with a charging time of around three and a half hours."
Pick 2 for handhelds: Slim, slow, long lasting, powerful, large.
Slim and large, please.
Note to self, never try this again while trying to get first post. I failed forever =(
Don't worry, we meant what you knew.
Not to mention the Lynx, the PSP... When will these companies ever learn that lean and cheap outsells powerful and expensive? They make the same mistakes over and over again, and Nintendo eats their lunch.
I'm confident that Nintendo will steamroll over whoever makes this "3DS" thing.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I don't know about you, but I got alot more than 4.5 hours on my original game boy. And yes, I had the sound on and brightness maxed. Its not too much to expect an improvement in battery life with every iteration.
We all had the brightness maxed out on our original Gameboys.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Up and down the middle isle of course. You can use the stewardesses and meal carts as hurdles.