you either have battery power or processing power. I think the game companies are pushing too much processing power at the expense of battery power. So yeah i think we are fully justified in complaining about battery life (in both cases because while I am a Nintendo fan i’m not ok with the 3DS battery life) If you can’t support your device with an appropriate battery life then you shouldn’t be pushing it.

More realistically (since I don’t expect companies to hold thephone at that) youshould fully expect a degree of backlash from your consumers. It’s like that monologue from Fight Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIdmkETuWeM
Basically a company will factor in the amount of money lost on the bad press vs the amount lost on waiting to release.

Nintendo used to be able to wait for good life. Heck good battery life is what made them the king of handhelds when the GameGear and the Lynx were superiour systems. For whatever reason they deemed that the boastful battery life of the DS (which will forever be sweet) was just not as needed as much as getting out first and considering the way everything has played out. (3ds is mostly appreciated by people who have them/their primary competition the Vita will miss the holiday) it’s entirely possible they banked right on giving up battery life.

All that said I will still complain about it. it sucks and that blows.

Eddie: Jasons comment response treeIs post about monster hunter >>>>>Yes?>>>>>>>sploogeIs post about monster hunter>>>>>>No?>>>>>>>derail conversation>>>>>>was derailment successful?>>>>>>Yes?>>>>>>Play monster hunterWas derailment successful?>>>>>>>No?>>>>>>splooge anyway then play monster hunter.  

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premiersoupir:
lol! nooooo, don’t hurt me! But yeah, I’m with you: I’m not into portable gaming, but when it comes to laptops, for instance, I don’t care much about battery life (as long as it’s within reason). Give me the power! I can be plugged in most of the time, anyway. I live in SoCal, where we don’t believe in public transportation, so it’s not like I’ll be working on the train, for example.  

I agree, my laptop has the worst battery life ever, but it’s also the biggest/best gaming machine Asus makes..
For me, the only time battery life is an issue, is if I was camping without a car nearby, etc..
or when all 4 of my kids DS’s die at the same time lol

I play the top 10 Smart Phone games maybe once or twice, just to make sure I’m not missing anything Fantabolous. Beyond that, I don’t touch ‘em….only reason they exist on my phone is for when I hand my phone to my son when he needs to be occupied (even then is pretty rare)