Even though this is being presented as a rumor, it seems so damn inevitable that it’s almost worth running as a “Captain Obvious” post before it’s even been confirmed. Nevertheless, rumblings suggest that Sony’s new handheld —the NGP— will max out at five hours of battery life.
This would bring it in line with the original PSP, which also boasted a notoriously short lifespan. If anything, it’d be shocking if the battery life wasn’tlessthan four-to-five hours. All those flashy graphics, 3G, and quad-core shenanigans don’t just appear by magic, unfortunately.
So yeah, even though it’s a rumor, we can more or less take it as read that we won’t be playing this for the duration of a non-stop flight to Japan. You don’t get something this powerful without some serious energy demands.
Source: NGP battery life is 4-5 hours[Eurogamer]
