If you’ve played Pokémon GO, you know it’s a phone battery hog. And if you’re like me, you’re also running Charity Miles while you’re walking around, because, hey… it’s a good thing to do. But that only further adds to the battery woes.
Pokémon GO didn’t make me buy a battery pack, but it did make me use the one I that I bought for camping (I have this goofy one that’s super-cheap right now). Now it’s always in my laptop bag, and goes with me in my CamelBak when my wife and I go hiking.
Here’s a question though… do we really have battery woes? Practically every tech device
we own – phone, laptop, tablet, eReader, smartwatch, FitBit, on and on – has a battery. We’ve got chargers everywhere. Point is, there’s already an ecosystem in most tech-savvy homes – and most non-tech savvy homes, to be honest – that supports charging a device like this. And Switch is rumored to use USB-C, which while not as ubiquitous as the standard USB jack, is not likely to cause mass confusion and consternation.
Nintendo Switch might end up being be a battery vampire, but thanks to Pokémon GO – and all our other devices that also need charging – it’s no big deal.