More (Actual) Experience with the PSP Battery

From Tim Rogers' coverage of the PSP launch as reported by Lik-Sang:

....Yeah.

It'll be OK guys.

 

That article was very nice - to bad the videos are so damn choppy & blurry :-(

 

Héhé, that's my nomad autonomy with 2000mAH batteries (i'll buy some 2800mah asap ^^)...
Anyway, that's very very short because you need to recharge them every 6 hours and its borring...

 

Answer me this. Why should a person who just bought a new console have to accept that the only way to play on it for a long time is by using everything at half power ? 50% screen brightness, 50% volume etc. I wish these people would stop pissing about the bush and accept that the PSP has shite battery life. For crying out loud, I've never heard such shite in my life about using 50% brightness and lower volume to save a console's battery time. I know, I'll play my DS with no front light. that will extend the battery life to 20 hours ! :smt014

Yakumo

 

But how bright is 50% brightness on the PSP? It's probably more than sufficient on a sunny day, surely? And 50% volume's probably a pretty adequate level for headphones.

 

But it's the same with a lot of modern portable electronics, my PDA has all those settings, same as my mobile phone(s).

You can either have it look shit but the battery lasts ages, or you can have it looking good andthe battery barely lasts the boot-up.

This is nothing new or unusual.

 

Yakumo: I'd say turning off the frontlight is quite comparable to turning down the brightness.

And sure, the PSP has got a short battery life, but so did the Lynx and Game Gear. Because they use(d) new technology that draws/drew a lot of power, be it a colour screen or an optical drive.

 

Just a difference between PSP and GG or Nomad:
Now we are in a world of portable systems....
Nomad and GG are just EXACTLY the same technology as non-portable system (when you see the GG screen with the big light tube...) just + a screen.

Sony has no escuse for a hi-battery consumtion exept that they wanted to make a monster in 3D....

 

until someone comes up with fuel cell handheld we will have this discussion me reckon... :-D
or hydrogen fuel handheld that will accidently go kaboom! :smt043

or spare battery you wear on your back - aka backpack style battery weigh around 10 kg - that will let you use the handheld for 168 hours non stop... :smt030 come to think of it... this isn't such a bad idea... NOT!

 

Well at least portable things are actually portable these days, unlike the Game Gear and Lynx which were just a pain in the ass. When I was a kid I only ever used my GG with an AC adapter because I'd need to save about a month's worth of pocket money for batteries!

And let's take a trip back to 1984 - the first CD Walkman:

This was supposed to be portable?!? I think the Dreamcast's smaller than this!

 

There's one of them in Hard Off. It is smaller than a Dreamcast. It's about 5 cm thick which makes it quite bulky.

Yakumo

 

I couldn't agree more what the use of playing of such abig screen with stereo sound if i have to set the brightness at 50% and sound at 50% lot of fun that will be when watching an umd movie or playing an arcade game like ridge racer which would propably stop after 2-3 hours if you set everything to the max as it should be.

Makes me wonder about future games that will be even better looking and more cpu/screen intesive the ridge racer, what will the game packaging be "only play this game at 30% screen brightness and 25% sound" or something like "this game is only suitable for people playing near a power socket".

I mean come on it's a handheld something you take with you, i make regular train travels once every 2 week and it takes me almost 3 hours a psp won't last that long if i don't trun down all the fancy options the thing was made for in the first place.

 

LOL!

I totally agree with you Silver :smt023

"this game is only suitable for people playing near a power socket". :smt043 :smt043

 

Even at full brightness and 75% the battery has been shown to last 3+ hours with CPU-intense games such as Ridge Racers.

I think people are simply going along with the bandwagon here on battery life. Is it really that much an issue unless you are on a long haul flight? Thsi sort of thing has been standard on mobiles and PDAs for an age now, battery consumption on laptops is especially shit, but it works out. Most people aren't goign to have the time to have their faces stuck in their PSPs for longer periods of time. And with the headphones, which is what you're goign to use in public places anyway, 50-75% volume I'd imagine would be adequate.

No, the PSP's battery life is not ideal, but considering it a trade off for what it can do that the DS can't and what it features what the DS doesn't (esp. that big beautiful display) and that in the future more than likely a battery with a superior charge will be released, is it worth it? Hell yes.

 

Its coments like this that i find weird. What if 50% brightness is totaly acceptable? (on my lcd screen i run 50%).

Also you only know its not the top brightness level because sony
gave you the choice to change brightness and not set it permanently to 50%. If they had and 50% is totaly acceptable i dont think you would be complaining...

Also what the hell is it with complaing about lower volume? Its highly likely that the volume on psp is quiet high due to the fact its meant to play mp3s. So its likely you will want to turn the sound down for a game...

Does your tv at home constantly stay at the top volume just because it can????

Dont complain untill you have used the damn thing...

 

Who the hell says EVERYTHING Should be set to MAX????

In your house is your stero, tv, computer, ect all set to max volume and brighness, color, ect???

No???

 

Exactly. 50% brightness and volume was probably exactly what he wanted. Jesus, you guys are anal.

I'm guessing 100% brightness is too bright to see anything.

 

Excuse me but a PSP at 50% volume is NOT going to be loud ! You won't be able to hear it in a noisy environment ! Just look at portable speakers for MD players. They are far better than the speakers in a PSP and they aren't very loud. The fact is that the battery isn't that great. PD's lap tops and so on (not mobile phones) are expected to make exceptions to prolong battery life but never has a hand held games system. And just for the record I HAVE played a PSP in a shop and I couldn't hear the bloody thing with it's volume set to max due to back ground noise. Just like I couldn't hear the DS either.

Yakumo

 

On my PDA and phone, with 100% brightness, the screen is too bright to use comfortably, and it makes the colours look washed out. In the dark, 30% brightness is more than adequate, anything more than that gives you a headache.

I have to agree with Paulo and Funkstar on this one.

 

so... any one had any "More (Actual) Experience with the PSP Battery"?