If you buy the 3DS you might want to consider a wall charger as well. Nintendo has unveiled figures for the 3DS’ battery life, and compared with its predecessors, it doesn’t look good. The official numbers are three to five hours per game, or five to eight hours if playing an older DS title. It takes up to three hours 30 minutes to fully recharge.
The DS gave us 10 to 14 hours, DS Lite 15 to 19 hours, DSi 9 to 14 hours, and DSi XL 13 to 17 hours. It’s safe to say you won’t be having any all-nighters playing a 3D Mario game on this thing unless you are plugged in.
[Engadget]
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Considering that the battery for the 3DS is better then the one for the DSi and DS games on the 3DS will run from 5 to 8 hours It would be impossible for that to be the lowest brightness setting considering the lowest brightness setting on the DSi runs from 9 to 14 hours and I don’t see why DS games would use up more power on the 3DS then they did on the DS. You also have to consider that Nintendo said that the battery of the 3DS will be close to the DSi whose battery length on the max brightness is 3 to 4 hours which is close to the 3 to 5 hour stated for the 3DS. If 3 to 5 hours really was the lowest brightness setting considering that the DSi had 5 brightness levels the highest brightness setting would be close to zero and that would be ridiculous or the 3DS only has one brightness setting like the original DS.
@Shadownin,
Please break up the text, it’s easier to read when it’s not a massive block of letters.
Thanks.
Also, older ds games will use more power because of the larger screens, even though it probably wont be stretched to fit, it still requires power for them to be on.
Oh and I think the screens also need more power because of the effect of “parrallax scrolling” which is esentially the way the 3ds has 3d with no glasses, because there are 2 screens in one, if that makes sense at all.
Because even though there are 2 screens in one, they both have to be on, so with a normal ds game or a 3d game with the slider on no 3d, both screens in the one screen will display the same image. am i making sense?
I’m probably wrong, been a long time since I read about the screens.