PSP Brite diagnosed with lower battery life expectancy

They are comparing it to the 2000 which is the same size as the brite. I thought the 2000 actualy had a better life then the 1000 which was the biggest of the three.

It's not suprising a brighter screen takes more battery....if you don't like it hit the square button on the bottom and turn down the screen brightness. problem solved.

Fair enough.

That's a no-brainer :P

*continues to play DS with Datel battery for 20 hours without a charge*

Yup, continue playing even if you finally got a claw hand, because Sleep Mode on the DS is a no no...

so why buy the 3000 then?

For the built in microphone, anti-glare screen and you have the option of turning up the brightness, but when you need the battery power, just lower the brightness to what the 1000 and 2000 series have.

the smell is not coming out of the PSP tho...so ya, it MIGHT be you

It's easy.
a) Play at work.
b) Play during multiple trips of no downtime.
c) Forget to charge.

Just bgecause it's not a pocket system doesn't make it non-portable. Laptops are portable, and much larger.

It's portable, but I don't think it's effective as a portable game system. I mean, are you going to use your laptop to play games on the train? The widescreen is a killer, it's gorgeous to look at, but it makes the system way too big and awkward.

you have never hold one have you?

I have spent countless hours playing on a PSP while on the train, bus, plane...

awkward? how so? the shape is more ergonomic than that of the DS! I end up with my hands hurting almost as much as with arcades...

I was talking about battery life.

Actually, if you put the PSP in the same bag as any other portable device, it reduces each device's own battery life by 5%.

However, you gain one quarter bar of reception on any wireless device. Nobody knows why.

wait wait, how is it that taking merely 30 mins of battery life is 2 steps back? have you seen the difference between the screens? hell, it was more than clear from the getgo that that would take much more power, I thought it would be between 1 to 2 hrs...

1 to 2 hours lost would have killed all portability as you walked out the door. Two steps back would quickly have become two feet in the grave.

two steps back in the sense that upgrades in tech generally increase in features, efficiency, and so forth. In this case, not only does this new PSP not improve in battery life, but actually uses more of it. I can't imagine a new car coming out that gives you less mileage, a slower engine, or smaller tires.

When the DS lite came out, not only did they brighten two screens, but increased battery life almost 40%. And this was 3+ years ago!

Pretty embarrasing for sony whichever way you look at it.

BigD145

My PSP used to last about 6 hrs or so, I would be more than happy to have the PSP last 5 hrs at the max settings with such an amazing screen.

"two steps back in the sense that upgrades in tech generally increase in features, efficiency, and so forth. In this case, not only does this new PSP not improve in battery life, but actually uses more of it. I can't imagine a new car coming out that gives you less mileage, a slower engine, or smaller tires."

The problem is, on your car analogy you are disregarding the fact that the "downside" is at the cost of a better experience, and also, once again, the changes can't be radical because this STILL the PSP1

"When the DS lite came out, not only did they brighten two screens, but increased battery life almost 40%. And this was 3+ years ago!"

So what? the DS screens are nothing compared to the DS's... I have seen screens that have better graphics than my DS's, and they were even older than 3 years!

Not only that, guess what, if I put my PSP on sleep mode, it actually works, while the DS's sleep mode is god awful, more so if you play GBA games on it...

Seriously, don't bring the DS to compare it to the PSP, because you will always lose