PSP Ultimate Thread (Sticky please)

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Originally Posted by manasecret

Exactly. Either way they haven't actually told the public what the gameplay battery life will be.

But simply running video won't use nearly all the power the PSP is capable of (I'm of course only assuming that video is obviously less strenuous on the hardware), while running video games certainly will. That's scary.

wellllll not exactly. running a straight up video can often be much worse on batteries. the disc will spin longer an harder then a game would make it. Games would load a bit more into mem and use the CD less then a vid, stoping and going when it needs to load more.

And im not sure what all it does about video compression, and converting and all that. so that possible could take up more too.

Which is why portable DVD players dont last long. there is a lot of power being used to play just video.

my guess is game play would last 4 to 7 hours, in that range.