from - http://www.pcmag.com/
Looking to pick up one of Nintendo's new 3DS handheld gaming systems? You won't need to wear any kind of silly glasses to benefit from the system's three-dimensional effects—a first for handheld gaming devices. However, when you're at the electronics store of your choosing, you might want to pick up a few extra lithium-ion battery packs.
That's because the official specs sheet for the 3DS has been released into the wild and some of its battery-related details might come as a bit of a surprise to eager gaming enthusiasts. Slugging through native 3D titles on the system will only last you three to five hours on Nintendo's 3DS depending on the hardware demands of a given game. Legacy DS and DSi titles—backwards compatible with the 3DS—will only give you anywhere from five to eight hours of playing time.
If that sound short, it's because it is. The system—expected to be priced around $249 during its March debut in the U.S.—delivers a fraction of the battery life of its predecessors, Nintendo's DS Lite and DSi handheld systems. Worse, all of the aforementioned 3DS battery estimates are allegedly calculated with the brightness of the system turned down.
On a DSi, a battery will last around nine to 14 hours of playing time on the system's lowest brightness setting and three to four hours if you crank the backlighting all the way up. On a DS Lite, the numbers increase to around 15 to 19 hours of gameplay on low brightness and five to eight hours on high. There's no been indication by Nintendo as to how much a 3DS' already low battery life could suffer if you run the system at maximum brightness.
Nintendo executives have stated that they believe products like Apple's iPhone and iPad can coexist in the same market as Nintendo's portable devices—a fact challenged by Apple's growing market share in an area once dominated exclusively by Nintendo and Sony. But one has to now factor the battery life of a typical Apple product into the competition as well—roughly 10 hours of continuous use for an iPad, or 10 hours of video viewing on an iPhone 4.
While nobody has been able to verify just how the battery life of the 3DS affects the overall use experience, be sure to check out PCMag.com's latest look at the 3DS itself from this year's Consumer Electronics Show
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