Wii U’s Controller Battery Life and Specs

[Demon_Skeith]

Here's some E3 buzzkill for you: it seems the battery in Nintendo's Wii U control pad only lasts for 3-5 hours.

That's...wow. That's less than a lot of you would spend during a serious session with a game.

This is going to be a problem given the nature of the controller; it's one thing to have a pad pluggedin while it's sitting in your lap and charging. If you're tilting it and moving it around the room, it's going to create problems.

Those aren't rumoured specs, either; they're official figures supplied by Nintendo. Bummer. Even worse is that they're estimates, with Nintendo saying that the screen brightness and "usage" may decrease it even further.

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That is.... fail. Who the hell designed this controller?


Guess I need to buy a 3rd party battery like I did with the 3DS.

 

[GracefulAssassin]

Meh, not bad. Expected considering what it does.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Meh, not bad. Expected considering what it does.

You do know in 3 hours the controller could be out of power right?

 

[ridwan sameer]

That really sucks.
I mean if a new battery lats about 3-5 hours.. Imagine when the battery gets worn out...

 

[GracefulAssassin]

I have a ton of batteries, and I charge them. I am not worried.

 

[Outstar]

That really sucks.
I mean if a new battery lats about 3-5 hours.. Imagine when the battery gets worn out...

Just act as I do with all batterys in anything, ignore all warnings and hope that the device can run off any pure love/hate you can channel into it...mostly the hate. Embrace the Hate and no batteries will die.

But if that is the estimate then I say that it is a bit poor, even knowing what this device will do. Oh well.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm sure nyko will make something to extend the batter, they did it with the 3DS.

 

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[Esperahol]

Considering this is Nintendo versus say Microsoft I would say 3-5 hours works well. I mean I don't expect to be plowing through an analogue for Skyrim or ME3 on this system so I don't need a controller to fight the good fight from dawn to dusk. Even with a good Zelda game I only need maybe four hours at a time because I don't play Zelda hard. That said a good Mario game might have me cursing in tongues if I can't rack up at least a dozen stars in one setting.

 

[Headgames]

That's such a little bit of time. I mean 3-5 hours is barely warming up when I'm playing. Maybe Nintendo did this on purpose to keep people from playing it too long. I will get a better battery if there is one available.

 

[hissae2]

Wow, thats really low D:

 

[Steven9wii]

i guess its due to the large number of things it can do