October 23rd, 2012

Wii U Pro Controller has 80 hours of battery life

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Wii U Pro Controller

The description of the Wii U Pro Controller via various retailers has revealed that it features “a rechargeable battery that can last up to 80 hours on a single charge”. A controller for the Xbox 360 and PS3 lasts between 20-30 hours, making for a fairly significant (and impressive) gap.

(via ign.com)

  • Marty

    Neet

  • http://twitter.com/AyaneKimura ♡AуaηєღKɪmυяa♡

    Pro indeed.

  • Raven The Great

    I wonder how long that tablet controller lasts, I’m pretty sure they just used the battery in there for this thing.

    • Ichigo Kurosaki

      I’m not sure where I seen it, but I thought this was the battery life for the gamepad. But either way this is 3 times as long as my P3 remote. Yay! No more charging after a day of watching One Piece.

    • Tails the Foxhound

      Gamepad was between three and five hours I’d heard.

  • zain

    what happened to 3-5 hours ALL the stuff?

    • Tails the Foxhound

      That was for the Gamepad, I don’t think anyone ever commented on this one.

  • Sonic20012

    Wow! I need to pick one of these up at launch! :D

  • Hybrilynx

    doesnt matter too much. i mean, everybody uses rechargeable batteries. if they die, just recharge them.

    • Critical Tiger

      Yes but charging takes time also.

    • Hybrilynx

      we have 6 rechargeable ones.

    • uJheelyPimp

      That isn’t much lol XD

    • Ice Climbers

      Yeah but it gets really annoying to have to put the controller on the charger after a certain amount of time, trust me. *Remembers rechargeable batteries that died after an hour in Wiimote while playing Skyward Sword….*. “Master, the batteries in your Wii Remote are nearly depleted…”

    • Hybrilynx

      we still havent played that game either after getting it for christmas. freaking cheap launch wii cant read disks. i have to wait for the wii u, so yeah. we had that game unplayable for a year becuz of nintendo.

    • Ice Climbers

      First, what does that have to do with rechargeable batteries? Second, the Wii launched 6 years ago, so yeah it isn’t a mystery as to why your Wii can’t read disks anymore. Mine did the same thing, but I fixed it. I’ve already played through Skyward Sword, it was just the stupid 3rd-party rechargeable batteries that died after an hour of playing.

  • http://www.nintendoworlds.com/members/turbopikachu.22921/ TurboPikachu

    Holy crap… That battery life is just 20 hours short of GC’s WaveBird (otherwise known as the best wireless controller ever). I already have a pro controller on preorder. This is going to be an awesome holiday season! :D

  • swaggedout

    does the interworks pro controller u have an 80 hour battery life