Hardware Battery life for a DS game

[R2DJ]

Just curious...is the 3DS' battery life better than the DSi's when regular DS games are played? I think my DSi's battery has lost some of its juice that it runs out quickly now (just charged 6 hours ago and it already ran out - I was playing on lowest brightness and Wi-Fi off and I didn't play it straight)

Thanks

 

[metal079]

no its a lot less than the dsi even when playing ds games.

 

[Slyakin]

The battery life is better then when the 3DS plays games in 3D... I get about 7-8 hours for DS games. Maybe more, but I can't be too sure.

Still worse then the DSi.

 

[R2DJ]

Even on the lowest brightness setting with Wi-Fi off?

 

[Slyakin]

Even on the lowest brightness setting with Wi-Fi off?

I generally have battery saving off, brightness of 2, and Wireless on.

 

[metal079]

Even on the lowest brightness setting with Wi-Fi off?

yes

 

[R2DJ]

Even on the lowest brightness setting with Wi-Fi off?

yes

Oh wow how shocking. I guess I'm gonna stick with my DSi. Pity I preferred playing with the much more comfortable 3DS buttons

Thanks to you and Slyakin

 

[Dylan]

I seriously played pokemon for hours the other day on full brightness etc and I wasn't even below half yet. I reckon the battery is awesome for DS games

 

[Herox]

Turn the brightness on 1. Not only is it more than bright enough, it gets 5 hours of power.

 

[CherrySkitty]

They should have improved the battery life for 3DS. I could play at least 11 hours in my DS Lite (DS games), and around 17 hours for GBA games. I love the 3DS and I'm going to get one soon, but I think they did a terrible job hardware-wise.

 

[xinyyy78]

I can only get 5 hours on the DS game...