>DS
>15-19 hours
>3DS
>6-8 hours
>Switch
>5-7 hours
Why the frick to handheld battery lives keep getting worse? It's not as though battery tech hasn't improved at all, you can play a 3D game on a phone half the size of any of these and it'll last twice as long (Except maybe the DS).
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Planned obsolescence. If you make a good product, then you won't need to buy a new one. Gotta fleece the cattle somehow.
t. learning how to replace Vita control sticks and the internal battery because sony if full of hacks and morons
>Planned obsolescence
That would imply the battery significantly degrades over time, but the battery is terrible on a completely new system.
That's not what planned obsolescence is.
If you ship with a worse battery to begin with, then the system won't last very long. Then you have to buy a new system. Whereas in the old days, if you bought something good, it would last you forever.
Cheaper quality parts mean that you need to replace them more often.
I just checked and the Switch has a 4310mAh battery. That's not far off my 4700mAh phone, yet my phone lasts forever. I have no idea what's going on to much my Switch drain so fast. Even playing light games like Fashion Dreamer.
Higher power requirements scaling up mixed with battery tech not getting much better in 20 years
this, battery tech needs to have a breakthrough for shit to work longer
>Switch 5-7 hours
lmao, the Switch has a better battery life than the PS5 controller.
>you can play a 3D game on a phone half the size of any of these and it'll last twice as long (Except maybe the DS).
Because phone processors are made on cutting edge manufacturing nodes and Nintendo goes with whatever is cheapest. Also if NVIDIA could make a good low powered mobile ARM chip, they would be in phones. They could before and they were in phones, but now they cant compete. They pretty much take a embedded NVIDIA chip and clock it down as far as they can and the result is worse than your average mobile processor.
>JewVidia
Makes sense. I should have known it was their chip fricking it up.
Why doesn't Nintendo just go with Snapdragon or MediaTek if they're already using ARM?
>Why doesn't Nintendo just go with Snapdragon or MediaTek if they're already using ARM?
Not sure but here are a few possible reasons:
Maybe those architectures dont scale up enough when plugged in
Maybe they cant provide the same software support as NVIDIA
Maybe NVIDIA gave them a better deal because they were butt hurt about not being on any consoles.
Even though they are better now, at the time they probably didnt have anything with as good as NVIDIA graphics that they could pull off the shelf like NVIDIA did
In that case I hope they at least go with AMD next time.
I'd happily pay extra if they did that.
>It's not as though battery tech hasn't improved at all
Its a lot like that
The Switch uses a 20nm chip. On a portable device.
There's your answer.
>Twice the size as desktop APUs
Jesus, even Intel were down to 14nm APUs in 2017.
Smaller transistors means less power consumption
>Calculations made by passing electricity through tiny bits if silicone
>Smaller pieces of silicon means less electricity needed
It's really that simple.
>do die shrink
>double battery life
>tons of people happily buy a 2nd Switch
Why didn't they do this?
>I want 4k grafix and 100 hours battery.
Better hardware require more power, battery tech advance at slow pace, unless someone find some room temperature superconductor, thats it.
>mfw switch randomly starting to get black screen on booting up games
bad batteries or video ribbon cable?
how easy are they to replace myself over playing 85$ for repairs?
never had issues till I started playing crysis II & harry pottor
Could be the thermal paste. A lot if manufacturers use cheap paste that dries out and no longer cools the main chips efficiently so you get crashes whenever something demanding comes up. This is one of the reasons Xbox 360s had such a high failure rate.
Probably a thermal issue.
>Plays Switch for a few hours ANYWHERE
>Dock it for full 1080p/60fps kino experience
Yeah, I'm thinking based. OP BTFO.
Because there was less practical benefit to a longer battery life than there was to more more processing power and a bigger screen.
Most people are generally playing for at most few hours without a power source.
I can count the number of times I've spent more than 5 hours without access to power and with the time and urge to game on my fingers, and I'm old enough to have grown up with the original Gameboy.
You need more? Get a USB power bank.
>You need more? Get a USB power bank.
Nah, I'll just keep playing my Switch in bed and using my Miyoo Mini on train rides.
You know how long 4 of these puppies lasted in me Gameboy?
However much power was left after you stole it from the TV remote.
One of them can play 3ds games and the other can play ds and gamecube games and the other can play full 3d open world lots of shit to do games
>5-7
fricking lie.
my Switch only lasts 2.5-3 hours
Maximum battery life, as in you turn wifi off, minimize brightness and play 2D indie games.