The original 3DS line and the 2DS use a different battery than the New Nintendo 3DS line. Product titles and descriptions should make this distinction, and if they don’t, move on from that ...

Face it, the Nintendo 3DS stinks for battery life. Let’s not pretend it doesn’t matter, or that it’s okay because we’re getting nifty no-glasses 3D, or, you know, put lipstick on a Tepig .

When projecting 3D images, the 3DS has to place two separate images on to the 3.5-inch upper screen, so we were keen to see what kind of effect this would have on battery life.

The new 3DS will go for up to six, Nintendo claims. The battery is also removable now. The new 3DS has a 3.88-inch display, while the new 3DS LL/XL has a 4.88-inch display.

The battery in the Nintendo 3DS is as bad as we had feared, and it's a major impediment to enjoying the system. Here's what we've found so far, after playing with the system for a number of days.

3DS owners can expect to get between 3 and 5 hours of juice out of the handheld’s battery, Nintendo has said. On the eve of its Nintendo World 2011 public preview event, held over the weekend in ...

That’s the question everyone keeps asking Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft, who bought a 3DS on the Japanese launch day. You can read all about his battery findings here: [Kotaku] https://kotaku.com ...

3DS data back up. To back up your 3DS SD card data, you will need to duplicate it in its entirety and keep the data safe — this could be stored on a PC, for example, or copied to a separate SD ...

Despite a pricing debacle, anticipation for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console is still high. But just how portable is this device if the battery life is shorter than its predecessor, the DS?

While Nintendo is yet to release concrete figures on the battery usage of the 3DS - not that you can ever trust official figures - company president Satoru Iwata has hinted that it won't last as ...

In a head-to-head battery test, the Nintendo 3DS outlasted the PlayStation Vita. YouTube user Kurekureyon filmed himself comparing the battery life of the two competing handhelds. In the video ...