Battery life can make or break a handheld console – just ask SEGA’s Game Gear. Nintendo has revealed how often you can expect to charge your shiny new 3DS, and it’s a lot more than you’re used to from a Nintendo machine. With the backlight turned down low you can expect a battery life of three to five hours. Turn the backlight up and obviously that will decrease. Playing a normal DS game on the 3DS will see a battery life of five to eight hours. Charging takes three and a half hours.
This puts the 3DS in the realms of the PSP 1000 – a console that was widely lambasted on launch for having a poor battery life. It certainly makes us wonder what kind of monster battery Sony must have in store for the PSP2.
Charmed_Fanatic
Thats bad, my DS last forever* *ok about 10 hours, maybe more!