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

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Not longer than initially though, but much longer than what gamespot reported. The whole 90 minutes thing is simply impossible. If you look at ign's journal...

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

You'll see that playing RR and Vampire Chronicles for an hour only used 11% of the battery life. That would leave the battery life at almost six hours per full charge. Assuming that RR sucks up more juice than the other games did, let's just assume that RR would have used up 12% of the battery life in one hour. That would put the battery life at around five hours, which would support what all of those individual gamers have reported with their imported PSPs on message boards like gaming-age (reputable posters).