Battery life

domientius · 10-30-2007, 12:32 AM

How fast does the remote eat batteries? I've heard it can be fast... but is there a hardware upgrade?

I've got... 27 hours into TP, roughly 10 in MP3 and maybe 3 or 4 in Wii Sports. Forgoing that I used that crappy Mad Catz rechargeable battery for maybe 10 hours total, that's still about 30 hours on the pack-in batteries the system came with(the el-cheapo dollar store batteries). But I'm just now down to 3 bars on the indicator(roughly 75%).

I would have though a battery change by now would be in order.

Damascus · 10-30-2007, 01:15 AM

2 AA batteries in a wiimote lasts around 1 full week.

cannon · 10-30-2007, 04:07 AM

My AA batteries that came with my Wiimote lasted me a couple of months. Thats including atleast 1 hour of play a day and sometimes alot more.

domientius · 11-01-2007, 05:17 AM

Finally died today after about the 40 hour mark. I think MP3 drained them faster than TP did, probably because I turned off TP's aiming cursor in-game. Replaced them with Energizer E-squared lithium batteries.

laurie_lu · 11-01-2007, 02:55 PM

I'm using the new "Hybrid" technology rechargeable batteries. They don't trickle charge when not in use. They come from the store fully charged. The charge lasts much longer than regular rechareables.