Mark of the Wolves said:
All I gotta say is 3 hours and not 2 like everyone was shouting. That's good enough for me. I'll just buy an extra battery. Hell it has better batter life than my Notebook computer.
Check this link out:
http://psp.ign.com/articles/572/572563p1.html
" December 12, 2004 - The biggest question people seem to be having about the PSP concerns its battery life. And, now that we have the final system in our hands along with a bunch of games, we're sure you all want to know how long can you play games before the system dies?
Unfortunately, we can't answer that question for you exactly. Why? Because we haven't had time to sit down for four or five hours straight with a game and play until the system died.
The PSP is meant to be a multimedia device. You can play games on it, you can play music on it, you can play movies on it, along with god knows what else. Playing through Ridge Racers until the battery dies is probably not a good indication of how long the battery will last when you end up getting your PSP system and putting it to use for a variety of things.
However, you're still probably hoping for some way of grasping the battery's performance, and so we've created this little journal story. After opening up the PSP, we initially let the system run until the battery lost all its residual charge, and then charged it up completely to full charge. From that point on, we made notes of the usage of our system and the remaining battery life.
The PSP interface screen has an option which lists the remaining battery life both as a percentage and as a time. The percentage should be a reasonable measurement of the amount of charge left in the battery (at least while the system is new), but the remaining time is just an estimate made by the system based on your current operating environment, with the brightness of the screen seeming to play the biggest role. What we've done here is listed the remaining time setting while the screen was at max brightness and when it was at minimum brightness.
We'll be updating this story as we continue playing with our PSP throughout the coming days. Be sure and check back to see what kind of juice you'll be able to get from your system.
DECEMBER 12, 2004
12:54AM: Turned On System
Following full recharge
12:54AM: Status Report
- Battery remaining: 100%
- Full brightness time remaining: 5:49
- Low brightness time remaining: 7:35
12:54AM: Played Games
Ridge Racers, Vampire Chronicles, etc., using system speaker set to full blast and screen alternating between minimum and maximum settings (videos look better when the screen is set to minimum)
1:54AM: Stopped playing games
1:54AM: Status Report
- Battery remaining: 89%
- Full brightness time remaining: 4:52
- Low brightness time remaining: 6:21
1:54AM: Turned Off System
3:30AM: Turned On System
3:30AM: USB and MP3
Transferred about 200 Megabytes of MP3 files to the PSP and used it as an MP3 player as I went to pick up another PSP unit. Had remote control and headphones attached to system. Listened to such artists as Prodigy, Utada Hikaru, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana, skipping tracks frequently as I determined that the PSP remote control and headphones suck.
4:30AM: Stopped MP3 use
4:30AM: Status Report
- Battery remaining: 76%
- Full brightness time remaining: 3:43
- Low brightness time remaining: 4:42
4:30AM: Turned Off System
6:00AM: Turned On System
6:00AM: Played Games
Played Minna no Golf and Armored Core at full brightness.
7:00AM: Stopped Playing Games
Noticed that remaining battery marker had fallen to two marks for the first time, so I wanted to check what the remaining battery was.
7:00AM: Status Report
- Battery now at two marks
- Battery remaining: 58%
- Full brightness time remaining: 2:35
- Low brightness time remaining: 3:05
7:00AM: Played Games
Continued playing Minna no Golf and Armored Core (low brightness for making videos)
7:45AM: Stopped playing games
Realized that you don't actually control mechs in Armored Core, so decided to stop playing.
7:45AM: Status report
- Battery remaining: 45%
- Full brightness time remaining: 1:39
- Low brightness time remaining: 2:07
7:45AM: Turned Off System.
We'll continue to track our battery use so you can obsessively determine how much battery time you'll get out of the PSP when you get your system in March. Stay tuned for updates in this space shortly. "
Expect much more info soon.
NY
