texhnolyze
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The price of online gaming on the go.
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Each Online match in Splatoon 2 barely consumes ~3% of battery
- Thread starter mocolostrocolos
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Read my post again carefully. Examine the part where I said "It shipped about 1-2 years early."
Tavernacle12
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For what it's worth, I've played two hours and still have a quarter of my battery left. That's not including it in sleep mode as it downloaded the game.
Jaguar Victory
Member
Better than my phone that's for sure.
Hatty
Member
Nothing coming out in the next two years would increase the battery life substantially.
pretty done
Member
Switch is much, much bigger than a phone though. It should have a larger battery capacity no?
OrangeGrayBlue
Member
It does have a larger battery capacity. It's just that it also has a larger screen and more taxing internal components.
CartridgeBlower
Member
Is this OP a joke? This sounds terrible.
Coreda
Member
A quick search didn't return any battery cases available yet. Depends how long one is practically using it for though.
I wonder what the average play time spent in portable mode is for most users. I'd imagine it's far less than phone usage simply due to the size and single functionality.
I wonder what the average play time spent in portable mode is for most users. I'd imagine it's far less than phone usage simply due to the size and single functionality.
SinCityAssassin
Member
I'll do my own tests, I feel like it's less than that.
Kittehkraken
Member
Where exactly is this bigger battery everyone wants gonna go?
Use a AC adapter or external battery pack if you want extended gaming sessions beyond whatever the Switch is internally capable of. You can buy external battery packs that give you something like 12 hours of battery life.
Use a AC adapter or external battery pack if you want extended gaming sessions beyond whatever the Switch is internally capable of. You can buy external battery packs that give you something like 12 hours of battery life.
MetalliCabombination
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took mine an hour to get from 100 to 15...half brightness i think.
pretty terrible imo....the game is just better played docked
pretty terrible imo....the game is just better played docked
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I mean, if Nintendo put out a device with a 4K screen packing Xbox One X-tier performance at the same size as the Switch, it would be pretty fucking impressive for them to hit like, 15 minutes, and there's no magic battery that would get it to several hours, yet despite that it would obviously be a pretty fucking bad handheld. Now, that's an absolute extreme, but obviously you can understand that while yes, when you're talking about handhelds with decent specs, there's going to be some trade-offs, and that doesn't mean the end result of those trade-offs has to be acceptable to everyone, and it's not unreasonable in the slightest to complain.
And besides, isn't it commonly accepted that if Nintendo had sprung for the next-gen Tegra chip they could have got better performance and battery life (albeit potentially at the cost of the price tag)?
Dr. Carroll
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They cooooooooould have made the batteries removable so players could simply swap the battery when one went flat for double the playtime. You know, like we did for literal decades with portable gaming consoles.
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The ability to easily replace the PSP's battery with servicable 3rd party knock-offs is the only reason the console isn't a paperweight in 2017. I bought some Insten batteries from China and they work great. No thanks to Sony who stopped selling official batteries because they were paranoid about piracy. It's crazy to think how problematic hardware like the Switch is going to be in 20 years. Unlike a phone, people do actually assume they'll be able to play Mario Odyssey in 20 years.
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The ability to easily replace the PSP's battery with servicable 3rd party knock-offs is the only reason the console isn't a paperweight in 2017. I bought some Insten batteries from China and they work great. No thanks to Sony who stopped selling official batteries because they were paranoid about piracy. It's crazy to think how problematic hardware like the Switch is going to be in 20 years. Unlike a phone, people do actually assume they'll be able to play Mario Odyssey in 20 years.
Dark Cloud
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They've got a business to run. The battery technology is what it is.
Considering the state of battery tech, I highly doubt another two years would have helped.
ughkingdom
Member
Turn your phone on airplane mode and watch the battery suddenly show strength you never thought possible.
60fps online third person shooting matches on a handheld are going to eat up battery no matter what you have. And battery technology hasn't exactly made all these awesome leaps and bounds in improvements over the years the same way all of our tech has. It's moving at a much slower pace.
This sounds pretty good to me for where the tech is at, and honestly why are you away from a device with an HDMI port for that long playing online multiplayer?
60fps online third person shooting matches on a handheld are going to eat up battery no matter what you have. And battery technology hasn't exactly made all these awesome leaps and bounds in improvements over the years the same way all of our tech has. It's moving at a much slower pace.
This sounds pretty good to me for where the tech is at, and honestly why are you away from a device with an HDMI port for that long playing online multiplayer?
how many AAs do i need for 8 rounds of splatoon 2
8 will get you 30 minutes if you're lucky.
There's a pretty big difference between a swappable lithium-ion and some AA's
size for one
Solid use of this gif lolHow I picture OP :
I also remember Splatfest not taking too much battery. Playing MK8D, I can play plenty more than 90 mins as well. I don't doubt that the 90 mins here is true but I would wonder why, and if it's actually a bug.
Harmondale
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Uhm playing online dragons crown on my vita several nights a week, can play some 3-4 hours max brightness on the old OLED. The slim should double that
A Switch revision, thats what I get many years from now
i would've expected it to be a bit less than Zelda, not like half as much as Zelda
this other posters test rates it close to 3% used a match as well
Jaded Alyx
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Why would it be less than Zelda? The wi-fi is on non-stop in Splatoon 2 when playing online matches.........
That's exactly why it'd be less than Zelda, wouldn't it?
Unless I'm not understanding what you mean.
Jaded Alyx
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I need sleep.
youre good fam
Souldestroyer Reborn
Banned
Welp. That backfired OP.
AlexFlame116
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Wow this thread went south quickly.
Maintenance
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Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
OP is easily pleased.
SporeCrawler
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battery life has never been a problem to me with switch. i have a battery pack and with a usbc cable you can just charge on the go.
i played zelda on 5-6 hour train rides without a problem.
i played zelda on 5-6 hour train rides without a problem.
At best, the gains would more likely come from the components within having to draw less power from the battery itself.
Gross. I am not a mobile gamer, nor a Switch owner yet. If this is standard or the best one can expect for mobile online gaming on the Switch due standards, cost, technology, size constraints or any number of valid reasons, than mobile online gaming sounds like it is not ready for prime time.
I get that a phone or a tablet or a laptop maybe only last similar xyz hours or this might be expected as many posters pointed out. This may be normal for online mobile gaming and nothing to flip out about, that being said. The reactions here speak volumes on the perception of this being a terrible value proposition. Can one imagine the ad campaign that says " play online with your friends for 1-2 hours!" ? It sounds bad to non mobile experienced people. All I can think of is having to get a battery pack or trying to find and out let to jack into, 3-5 hours "feels" right. Regardless of if 1.5 hours for online play is the norm...it is a fail. I could be wrong and often am, it sounds laughable to me though.
I get that a phone or a tablet or a laptop maybe only last similar xyz hours or this might be expected as many posters pointed out. This may be normal for online mobile gaming and nothing to flip out about, that being said. The reactions here speak volumes on the perception of this being a terrible value proposition. Can one imagine the ad campaign that says " play online with your friends for 1-2 hours!" ? It sounds bad to non mobile experienced people. All I can think of is having to get a battery pack or trying to find and out let to jack into, 3-5 hours "feels" right. Regardless of if 1.5 hours for online play is the norm...it is a fail. I could be wrong and often am, it sounds laughable to me though.
Huge Succeeded
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KZ Mercs online lasted less than two hours on OG Vita, the other hand. I'd think it varies from game to game.
I really don't think Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has a higher tickrate than Splatoon 2
Panajev2001a
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Did the doctor order them to have a hybrid console replacing both Wii U and 3DS when they were not ready or something? They control the entire stack (platform HW, platform SW, and in this case the game), have many billions in the bank and little to no debt, and they are responsible for how it performs and when you can launch it as a product.
Customers should not be blamed if they thought Nintendo would have had to call up nVIDIA earlier and put 200-400 hundred million dollars extra to get the to develop a custom chip to deliver the same power at a much much lower power consumption. They have the money to invest more in HW and SW.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Pretty sure S8 has a more taxing screen and iPhone 7 Plus a more powerful processor and GPU combo.
Retro Edge
Member
We have 2017 guys, buy a 20000 or 30000Mah battery pack and you have your 8-15 hours playtime.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
Switch software is far more taxing than your average smartphone app.
CuckFupertino
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What were you expecting?
I'm not gonna sit here and defend Nintendo's incompetence in regards to online play, but anyone who expected them to get it right has themselves to blame. Buying Nintendo and expecting online to work the way you want is like pissing in the wind.