>Power for battery life—a fair trade-off? I’m not so sure.
A GameBoy from 1989 is highly likely to still function.
If you do not like the battery life of new products, continue to use the old ones.
There is no tradeoff.
A GameBoy from 1989 is highly likely to still function.
If you do not like the battery life of new products, continue to use the old ones.
There is no tradeoff.
In the 80s you had to get long battery life because you were generally throwing the batteries away and shoving in new ones. Now with rechargeables you just plug in the cord and you can both play and recharge at the same time. It's not a big expensive hassle.
Do customers want more features/graphics or more battery life?
I’d argue that we’re deep into that territory with graphics and have been for at least a decade now. Yes newer games look better, but the different isn’t radical like it is when comparing ~2005 games to their ~2015 counterparts, and outside of high settings junkies most people would be perfectly happy with 2015-2020 graphics for the foreseeable future.
Battery life on the other hand is nowhere near the point of diminishing returns for many devices. If Apple released an iPhone that got a week of real world battery life for example, it’d be an instant hit. I’d personally love for gaming handhelds to have that kind of just so they never need to be plugged in while used and I rarely have to think about recharging.
But I know there are others who prioritize other aspects over battery life.