PS4 controller battery life..

[Jasandjules]

Seems awfully poor to me. Are others finding similar?

[craste]

Yes not good, I think you can lower the volume of the speaker though, suppose this will help. Mind you are we thinking it's not lasting long, but in truth we are playing on the ps4 so much more as it's new?

[HedgehogFromHell]

I brought this up mid game with Snafu the other night, he most eloquently put it as...

"because there's a bloody great light always on it" - which is a fair point - i get roughly 8hrs out of mine

[Jasandjules]

Yes, it seems like about 4-6 hours I suspect and I also thought the reason was the rather bright light..

Saying that, it gets to 1 bar quite quickly but then that seems to be ok for a while before it demands you charge it.

[Meoricin]

HedgehogFromHell said:

I brought this up mid game with Snafu the other night, he most eloquently put it as...

"because there's a bloody great light always on it" - which is a fair point - i get roughly 8hrs out of mine

That's just one led though - it won't use much more power than the red player indicator led did on the PS3 controller.

Isn't it because the battery in the PS4 controller is smaller than in the PS3 one, despite the additional load of the touchscreen etc?

[ChrisBuer]

My solution is to leave one controller plugged in via USB and use the other, then just swap them over when the one I'm using needs charging. It's not ideal but keeps me gaming. I agree though, the battery life is pretty poor compared to the dualshock 3 which seemed to last forever.

The other solution is to enable USB charging in standby mode and plug them in when you're not using the PS4. Keeps them charged up nicely.

[Jasandjules]

ChrisBuer said:

The other solution is to enable USB charging in standby mode and plug them in when you're not using the PS4. Keeps them charged up nicely.

That is what I am doing. I just seem to find that I have 20 mins to spare and want a game only to find the controller has 1 bar left....

Mind I don't think it takes that long to charge either.

[happyWanderer]

It's definetly worse than ds3.
I've got an iphone charger with USB extension cable plugged in and normally plug ds4 to it when playing. You couldn't do that with ds3 cos it required some kind of handshake with console to start charging so that's a plus.