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[Spukc]

With great power comes lower battery life.

Nintendo is not using some new magical black hole tech batteries for their products. They will get less time running maxed out

 

[Assaulty]

Dude the logic in here...

You know what other games have object physics? Half life 2 and Oblivion. Does that mean the Xbox 360 cpu >>>>> ps4 cpu???????

 

[Fbh]

1 hour for your lunch break at work.
1 hour for your lunch break at your second job you need to afford the games.

 

[SolarFry]

Kotaku?

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Just buy two, dummy.

 

[consoul]

More powerful system consumes more power.
Thanks Obama.

 

[Days like these...]

Oh thank God finally something ppl can legitimately hate on after being salty about it not being as underpowered as they'd hoped for.

 

[Leopold]

Original Switch also held 1h30 playing Zelda, same as the Deck playing intensive games.

 

[sendit]

Battery tech has remained stagnate. Solid state batteries can't come soon enough.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Aaron Greenturd? 4k native won't exist unless you are playing games like Witchbrook.

Now you are playing with another underpowered console that is going to primarily color within the 1080p lines.

All consoles are upscaling from around 1080p when running 60 or 120fps. Even the ps5 pro.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

I don't trust Kotaku but going back about battery why can't they have solar technology? Solar technology today is good, even the lights inside our homes are enough to charge it. Good thing about Sony they already patent a solar powered Dual sense controller.

Panel size on a switch 2 would be tiny i.e pointless

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Let us not forget it was the OLED screen that really provided some OOMPH to the battery life. So, yes, a Switch 2 OLED is in my future, too.

OLED consumers more power than LCD at higher brightnesses it is not overall better battery life wise but there are moments like imagine when a section of the screen is dark which allows the OLED display to fully turn off the pixels in that region where OLED wins in power consumption, there's also certain low brightness scenarios where OLED wins

 

[Mozza]

You're telling me a system that is 10X more powerful draws more power? noooooo.

I know.... how is this even possible.

 

[Mozza]

Surprised this isn't get talked about more. 2 hours is pitiful, hopefully that's only for games targeting 120fps.

Yes I am very surprised too with the amount of salty gaffers on here. Guess they are far too busy complaining about everrything else.

 

[funking giblet]

I doubt I'll see a battery tech breakthrough in my lifetime.

Over the last 40 years there has been massive improvements in batteries.

 

[Panajev2001a]

1080p screen 4 k outputs 60 fps you must pay to play with power

You must pay for Nintendo being cheap while charging you a lot of money staying on an 8 nm node and not 5 nm or better…

 

[Panajev2001a]

You're telling me a system that is 10X more powerful draws more power? noooooo.

Maybe going from 20 nm to a modern process gives people the idea that power consumption can be kept in check… but then Nintendo went in mid 2025 for 8 nm so well .

 

[Panajev2001a]

uh, that's not worse than the original Switch. I got about 2h of battery when I played Breath of the Wild at launch.

They say about ~2 when for the OG Switch they said ~2.5 so… maybe some unlucky sod will average 1.5 h or so playing some launch game…

 

[DenchDeckard]

I would like an official update on this and testing by other parties to confirm battery life. 2 hours sucks

 

[Ribi]

You're telling me a system that is 10X more powerful draws more power? noooooo.

You're telling me they had like 8 years to develop a bigger battery and software that helps with battery life. Nice hand waving

 

[fran.fernandez]

Well that's a lot less than playing with ally x

 

[TheRaidenPT]

Fabbed in 8nm Samsung and a 1080p Display with HDR and VRR + 120fps it's a given.