Sony has released a system spec sheet for the PS Vita and the news on the battery life is most disappointing. When gaming, the handheld’s lithium-ion battery will last a meager three to five hours. Once the battery is depleted it will require approximately two hours and 40 minutes to recharge.
Video playback, meanwhile, is said to run down the battery in precisely five hours. When users listen to music and keep the system in standby the battery will go for a good nine hours. Unless you never take devices out of sleep/standby mode to hit next, adjust the volume or other such things, the battery will obviously run out of juice sooner than that.
Three hours for gaming is shoddy for a unit that is supposed to be portable. It’s so bad, in fact, that it is difficult to remember the last time a handheld gaming device had such feeble battery life. Oh yeah, now I remember. Of course, the Vita is far more technically advanced than Nintendo’s unit, so at least you’ll be getting more performance out of the same three to five hours.
[Source: Sony]
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