All of us are aware, the original battery was terrible. One and a half hour minimum especially on AAA games is a horrible feeling, every video recommended a good battery pack to keep the deck alive and running. Now the OLED is here! so far my experiences with it have been at the minimum: 2 hours and 45 minutes (Minimum battery time was on Dying Light 2: medium settings, 60 fps) To around 5 hrs and 30 mins on lower demanded games. (Henry Stickmin collection reaching max) The new oled battery is stated to be on average 3-12 hrs so with this information at hand, I believe it’s not as necessary as it used to be especially concerdering TDP limits as well, however, I would love to hear y’all’s thoughts on the situation.
Do you play for longer than the internal battery allows?
If yes, buy battery pack.
If no, then don’t.
End.
Yep this is it. There’s going to be people for whom the OLED’s extra battery life pushes them into the ‘no’ case while they would have been ‘yes’ with the LCD, but it depends entirely on usage. I’m going to continue to carry a battery for longer trips and not for short ones, same as before - I don’t think it’s going to change when I bring it with me, there’s just probably going to be more times I bring it and don’t end up needing it.