Head of Team Ninja Yosuke Hayashi is brushing aside concerns that the 3DS's limited battery life will negatively impact the console's appeal.
According to Hayashi, the 3D effect - this is what aggressively drains the 3DS battery - causes too much eye strain to be usable for long periods anyway. "For the battery stuff," he said to VideoGamer.com during an interview last week, "basically, 3D viewing for a long time would be kind of tiring for your eyes, that's why for the hardcore gamer we can switch the 3D depth slider to off."
Referring specifically to Dead or Alive: Dimensions, Team Ninja's 3DS fighter, Hayashi argued how well the game played for anyone trying to conserve the battery life by disabling the 3D effect. "Without 3D viewing we can run the game at 60fps, which the hardcore gamer can enjoy."
Part of the reason anyone is buying a 3DS is for the 3D effect and all they can say about extending battery life is 'turn the 3D off'
Remarkable, as if that never occurred to us.
While I do take my portable gaming systems with me at times when I'm out, I do most of my hand held gaming at home where I can be plugged in if need be. So what this means to me, and I'm sure many other gamers is that when you're away from home, you only get 3-5 hours. It isn't ideal, but unless you want the thing to be even more expensive, or to have a battery that gets so hot it wrecks your system or is uncomfortable to hold, this is how it has to be. For now.
3-5 hours has been confirmed max settings people
If you adjust 3d,wifi, brightness, volume, you get 5 plus hours
For comparision the dsi was 3-4 hours max settings to
But people seem to like trolling. At this point its fact
I will not buy the 3DS if it's gonna have a short bettery life.
These are the same jackasses who don't understand why people hate the meth head looking Dante and can't figure out why Enslaved did bad. Why the hell are we listening to their opinion for? We couldn't find anybody else better?