Suspicions Confirmed as PSP set to see Battery Upgrade

At least it's being sorted out and I'd say I'm more up for purchasing one now.

With this now sorted let the games do the talking.

Why can't they give us solid numbers. The 30% is vague because the estimates are between 2-6 hours for gaming. So a 30% boost can be as between 40 minutes and 2 hours of extra time.

30% IS solid.




But different games put different requirments on the machine - more or less disc access, more or less screen usage, more or less sound - so it's unrealistic to expect a firm battery life. It's like saying thsat you get just as fatigues lying down for an hour as you do running up a hill.

oh yea...naturaly! its not like nintendo has an enormous installed user base and a stock pile of developers working like mad on titles and a history of just rulling all things protable game related. I mean now that the psp has gone up 30% battery life it totaly makes up for the fact that it still lasts about 1/4 as long as a DS does...

you know xbox fans get raged on cause they just worry about fancy graphics and dont care about game play cause nintendo and sony got the better games... but then the spong team gets wood everytime the psp is mentioned cause it has a big shinny screen and better graphics (oh and an awsome slightly less crappy than before battery life)... hipocrytical much?

the only way you guys are going to be fare and balanced is if you all get chemical skin peals and take up tight rope walking. :)
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WHOA DUDE! You totally went off one one there. and kinda missed the point A BIT.

SONY has announced a new powercell - the obvious front-runner to get it is the PSP.

That's not any kind of editorial opinion, or pro-PSP propoganda. It's not stating that PSP has any kind of lead over the DS, or that it is superior in any way. In fact, it's a little bit critical of the PSP's current battery life. Which I find to be perfectly fine, btw.

But if SONY has a new Li-Ion battery technology, why in the sweet lord's name would they GIVE IT TO NINTENDO?

THEY WOULDN'T, they'd keep it for their own hardware - THE PSP! Thus making the PSP the front-runner to receive the new technology. Like the story says.

JEESUZ!

that to me sounds like this development specifically relates to the PSP... if this is a case of... "we made a cool new battery" and spong is just assumeing it will end up in the psp then it could have been worded a little bit better.



am i crazy or does that say the psp WILL get a battery upgrade. Now seeing as the title of the articles implies this is a definite confirmed ocurance... follwing it up with a "psp natural front runner" comment would seem to be in realtion to something other than the "confirmed" battery upgrade... what else could the psp be the front runner for... best portabel console perhaps? especially considering the onyl real criticsim i hear about sony's system is that the battery is porportionatly weak.

after looking back over it i do think i miss-interpreted the intent of the article... but i dont think i was reading to much into it.. it was really badly worded... my bad, but their bad too.

also i think the tight rope line was a good one so the post wasnt a total waste :P

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I understand where you are coming from Lupos but I think you are blowing it out of proportion. News is news, be it Sony or Nintendo etc.

I like Nintendo's stuff as well as other stuff and I think a lot of people are underestimating the DS (so tired of saying this now) because of its cosmetic looks and graphics while forgetting the main purpose for both hand helds which is good games. Many games are yet to come for both PSP and DS.

It's okay to bare your fangs no and then but there's no point on this news post.

Sony improving something can only be good for gaming, the same way Nintendo improved the GBA into the GBASP or MS their control pads. It's the same kind of thing and we stand to benefit as a result, then as I said before we can concentrate on the games and stop worrying about hardware.

i wasnt complaing about sony or the battery life... in all honesty im suprised the thing last 2 hours... i'm pretty sure under continuous use my digital camera wouldnt last 2 hours... My beef "WAS" with the article.. which upon initial inspection seem to be implying that because of the PSP new found better battery it was the "natural front runner" in the comming hand help console war. After reading Rod's post i realized it probably was not the case but rather just that the psp was the natural font runner to recieve this new battery tech.
Either way the article was a little crumby because if they ment it the way i initially read it, it is painfully biased... and if they ment it the way rod suggested (and the more likely scenario) then it was just poorly phrased. I may have read it wrong but from the headline on the front page it certainly leads me to belive the natural comment was not in refference to the battery recipient but something else.

I was not intending to bash sony's machine i was intending to point out the flawed reasoning in calling the PSP the obvious front runner. (a comment i now realize was missconstrued[spelling?])

anyway... psp is impressive... no doubt... DS is cool but kind ugly... i probably wont buy either of them cause the only time i play games is at home anyway... that said i do root (rout, rute?? hell I really dont know... how odd!) for the DS just cause nintendo needs it so bad at this point, but thats just my hope for their finacial sake... i have no direct intrest in it.

actually i was thinking about it and i wonder if they coudlnt give us a more acurate number...

what if lets say sony stress tested a bunch of the batteries to see how many total watts (?? im probably using the wrong term for this example, not real up on basic electronics so try and follwo along) a battery can put out... like a max out put of 10watts(??)per second can be sustained for 2 hours. so the battery woudl be capable of a grand total of 7200 watts (thats gott be wrong... killowat hours? i have no idea)

then each game coudl have an average consumption rating... i know they all ahve there ups and downs but an everage coudl be created... convert this to a more easily understandable score and throw it on the packaging for each game.

so then.. on a full charge snake would get a 100% or 6 solid hours and ridge racer might only get a 50%.

i dont even know if such a thing is quantifiable in such a way... just thinkign out loud... woudl be nice to know.

How can you notice the difference if the baseline time is not stable to start with and has a differnce of up to 300%. I do not think you will be able to notice a difference unless it is at least another 2 hours. But I guess all will be forgiven if they have good non-sports wifi titles at launch.

I'm still amazed I can get 15 hours off my first generation GBA SP. Then again maybe people like charging things. I know a lot of people who have hi-end PDA's and cellphones end up charging everyday like a routine.

Well im gonna hold off getting one until the battery is sorted then.

.. well that.. and until it has games which are actually suited to a handheld platform, rather than straight console ports.

What makes a game suitable for handelds? Since the control schema of the PSP is similar to the PS's minus 2 shoulder buttons? What contraints are there? I play mine for the majority of the 2 hours I spend a day commuting, and it's not vastly different to my gaming at home: I'm sat down, I hold a controlling device, I stare at a screen.

If the argument is: "Well the battery lasts only 2-3 hours, so I need instant pick-up-and-play twitch-style games", then that doesn't hold water with me. 2-3 hours is all I spend in one gaming session at home, which is plenty of time for me to become immersed in "complex" games. So what's the difference?

no difference apart from the fact u know that u can play ur game for longer if u wanted to

I think he's referring to the fact that handheld games usually have the option to save progress often and the games are slightly shorter to allow for easy commuting. No point in playing a FF game on the move if you can't save before you get off and have to just keep going until you can, is there?

WarioWare is still the leader when it comes to commute-friendly games. You can finish an entire game section in less than 10 minutes! You can replay games and they last 5 seconds! Perfect for the short journeys like the bus to work.