PSP: Out Tomorrow (in Japan). But does anyone care?

[A Black Falcon]

Actually I've read several reports that you'll get five hours with full screen brightness and volume at max, if the system is fully recharged.

Using headphones and no wi-fi, and if you aren't just playing demanding games, yes that seems to be possible. I haven't seen reports that do that with just games... all of the reports with longer battery lives that I've seen seem to be mixtures. An hour of music, several of one game, some of another... or the "six hours" one was two hours of a not very demanding game and then four of RR... supposedly. The guy doesn't have much credibility since he was trying to sell PSPs later in the same post.

Yes, the battery life is better than I expected. But it also is not quite as good as you were expecting. And it seems to vary greatly depending on what you do.