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

[A Black Falcon]

http://psp.ign.com/articles/574/574557p1.html

IGN article about PSP battery life. Results? 3 hours 32 mins in Ridge Racers (running a race replay repeatedly to minimize UMD use) with speakers on and full brightness, 5 hours 9 minuites in Vampire Chronicles attract mode with headphones (to test a lower-impact game and the UMD), a negligable battery hit for having it in Standby mode for a day, 2 hours 26 mins in Ridge Racers WiFi mode (speakers on), and 10 hours 39 mins of screen-off MP3 play.

This does fall in with most of the other reports... that 90 mins from Gamespot is odd, but seems to be wrong. At its most taxing it seems to get a bit over 2 and a half hours (speakers and wifi on and full brightness).

That shows the impact of WiFi -- battery life dropped from 3:30 to 2:45. I'd be intrested to see what the impact of brightness is... that is how much the battery life goes up with lower brightness.

How does it end up? Better than I expected but still noticably worse than the GBA and even the DS. And far better with non-3d games and speakers (could add hours!). Bad? Depends on how you use it... more battery life is definitely better, but this is probably just high enough for most people to not care. Though Nintendo does have a sales point if they talk about how the DS gets noticably better battery life... but not as much of one as they would have liked for sure because the DS doesn't match the GBA either. Uh, so is the ultimate winner the GBA? :)