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I don't think it will, Tim. I don't think Vita has mechanical internals like the original PSP. You saved energy in the PSP with downloadables by not spinning the UMD.
The battery time is not ideal. I think it would be nice to have something like 5-8, like the DS did. But it is not terrible, as it is the same the PSP did and it is a more powerful device. Hope Sony launch and external battery option officially, instead of us having to wait for Nyko. And with a back touchpad, it will be hard to do one.
I have to say that this is about what I expected, but there's a dark cloud looming over the Vita's head in terms of Network connectivity. I'm pretty sure they confirmed that it's 3 to 5 hours at the standard brightness WITHOUT network features on...
If I was still in school and commuting this would be a huge concern for me. Now I think most of the time I'll be playing a handle on my couch or bed. The low battery life makes me sad but can't really complain with this thing being a beast!
The vita has more horsepower, bit maintains the same battery life because of that oled screen. Its much more energy efficient than a backlighted lcd. I haven't been bothered by the 3ds's battery life. I never play long enough for the battery to just die on me. And it seems to last a lot longer with the brightness turned down. That 3-5hrs is if you have the brightness up, turning off wireless when you don't need it adds more time.
@Patrick
Are you talking about the 3DS? Because Sony confirmed the Vita's life is at standard brightness with wireless features off..
Are you talking about the 3DS? Because Sony confirmed the Vita's life is at standard brightness with wireless features off..
Yeah, battery life is a huge issue these days. I really am tired of this, but oh well.I bet this won't burn as much as the 3DS since the Vita has stronger specs (but 3DS has 3D to work the battery), since no one expects good battery life anymore.
I expected this, but expect that to be the line of every card-carrying Sony fanboy from here on out, even though they raged at or previously mocked it when it happened with 3DS. The ports, too. Hypocrisy is fun, after all.
I don't see the big fuss, though, I play these at home and on breaks at work or when anything I'm doing that's out and about requires waiting.
I don't see the big fuss, though, I play these at home and on breaks at work or when anything I'm doing that's out and about requires waiting.
I don't think it's THAT surprising since the PS Vita has a lot of power, it was obviously not gonna have a lot of battery in the system.
"I'd use it mostly indoors anyways, so that's fine."
And the Sony defense force, comes out to play. Who didn't see this one coming? The same people who shit all over the 3DS are having to eat some real crow today, aren't they? "Oh the PSVita will have a much better battery life, than the 3DS. Sony will see to that?" Ah no actually turns out its the same 3-5 hours, so to complain about the 3DS and than all of a sudden, think its fine for the PSVita, is what we like to call FUCKING HYPOCRITES LOL!
And the Sony defense force, comes out to play. Who didn't see this one coming? The same people who shit all over the 3DS are having to eat some real crow today, aren't they? "Oh the PSVita will have a much better battery life, than the 3DS. Sony will see to that?" Ah no actually turns out its the same 3-5 hours, so to complain about the 3DS and than all of a sudden, think its fine for the PSVita, is what we like to call FUCKING HYPOCRITES LOL!
No surprises here, but disappointing nonetheless. Hey at least we have something in common with the 3ds crowd now. :p
It's a bit of a let down. I would prefer a longer battery life, but I'm probably just going to play this at home or at work. It's not a deal breaker.
has any word come out regarding what kind of format the games will use? some kind of tiny blu-ray, perhaps? a cartridge, even? i think we all know that those UMDs were pieces of trash, and they broke far too easily...
Well in fairness I can't be disappointed in the 3DS having horrible battery life and not be disappointed in the Vita sporting the same blah battery life .......
I'm almost starting to wonder if all the poor hardware designs are selected so they can sell us licensed aftermarket parts that fix what never should have been a problem ..... its almost like hardware DLC.
I'm almost starting to wonder if all the poor hardware designs are selected so they can sell us licensed aftermarket parts that fix what never should have been a problem ..... its almost like hardware DLC.
@MrSwishaTwista
The Vita switched over to cartridges.
And if your breaking UMDs ...... your doing it wrong.
The Vita switched over to cartridges.
And if your breaking UMDs ...... your doing it wrong.
@Burdmayn -they tried downloadable-only with the PSP Go, remember? that didn't work out too well for them. flash cards would be okay, i suppose.
@Scuffles- I broke a lot of UMDs, unintentionally of course. I tried taking care of those little bastards. crush-proof cases and whatnot, but no matter what, the stupid plastic case would always end up breaking somehow. i was an early adopter of the first generation PSP, but gave up on it fairly quickly.
@PEICanada7
Agreed. Everyone made a big furore over the 3DS battery life, and now the same thing's happened with Vita everyone's like "oh, that's cool". It's funny how we can load devices like handhelds and mobile phones with cameras, mp3 players, touch screens, internet capability, etc, but one technological breakthrough that hasn't happened is a battery that can support all that shit without making the device die in 1 or 2 hours.
Agreed. Everyone made a big furore over the 3DS battery life, and now the same thing's happened with Vita everyone's like "oh, that's cool". It's funny how we can load devices like handhelds and mobile phones with cameras, mp3 players, touch screens, internet capability, etc, but one technological breakthrough that hasn't happened is a battery that can support all that shit without making the device die in 1 or 2 hours.
I am very excited for the Vita; but this is the very least that I would consider acceptable.
I guess you could say I find the battery life barely acceptable. Good enough to get a passing grade, but the kind of passing grade that cause your parents to yell at you.
Oh well, everything has been so pleasantly surprising with the Vita; I was hoping the battery life would be a similar story...
*sigh*
I guess you could say I find the battery life barely acceptable. Good enough to get a passing grade, but the kind of passing grade that cause your parents to yell at you.
Oh well, everything has been so pleasantly surprising with the Vita; I was hoping the battery life would be a similar story...
*sigh*
PEIcanada : I believe its the same as the 3DS except that includes network play, and 3D. I would hate to know what it would have been if they didn't use oled screen.
So.... When the 3DS gets low battery, everyone's all trolling and saying that they'll wait for the 3DS lite, but when the PSV gets low battery, everyone's all "OMFG ITS NOT LIKE I PLAY OUTTA MY HOUSE LOL"?
Nice.
Nice.
It's playstation vita guys, not playstation portable, Clearly they have created the worlds first mobile-home-console! you arn't supposed to take it outside where there are no places to plug that sucker in.
wait shit, nintendo did that first.
wait shit, nintendo did that first.
If the vita gets 3-5 hours playing retail games that's more impressive than the 3ds to me. No one is clamoring for the 2000 yet because this one has dual analogs....OH.
Still disappointing though, i can't get 9 hours of music on my phone and my laptop has awful battery life so this is actually not bad in comparision.
Still disappointing though, i can't get 9 hours of music on my phone and my laptop has awful battery life so this is actually not bad in comparision.
@burdmayn, I was talkin about the 3ds. Having the 3d off can also add up to one hour of battery life.
I tend to play on < 2 hour bus and train travels anyway. I'm okay with this, and also with the 3DS's battery life.
So overall it actually has more RAM than the PS3? Since that really is the PS3's biggest limitation in terms of graphics, Vita might actually be capaple of more than the PS3 in practice. Assuming it can use all of it's RAM for games and not just the 128MB VRAM.
@Namodacranks
The PSV's battery life is justified by its raw horsepower...don't like it, but it is justified. The 3DS is justified as well due to its 3D capabilities, but when 3D is turned off, battery isn't much better. But I do agree that it's funny that with the Vita, everyone's like "I don't go anywhere anyway!" ...Not gonna lie, I'm one of those people. I'm still going to wait for the 3DS lite though for the off chance that the lite will have the second analog stick built in...and of course the whole battery thing we were all up in arms about.
The PSV's battery life is justified by its raw horsepower...don't like it, but it is justified. The 3DS is justified as well due to its 3D capabilities, but when 3D is turned off, battery isn't much better. But I do agree that it's funny that with the Vita, everyone's like "I don't go anywhere anyway!" ...Not gonna lie, I'm one of those people. I'm still going to wait for the 3DS lite though for the off chance that the lite will have the second analog stick built in...and of course the whole battery thing we were all up in arms about.
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