With gamers across the globe now settling in to put their Switch 2 consoles through their paces, we've been seeing a bunch of media outlets, alongside eager social media and Reddit users, report in on how they're finding the battery life thus far.

For full transparency, we've yet to run a rigorous battery test here at Nintendo Life, but from this writer's personal experience it's taking around the two-hour mark roughly, to drain things right down whilst playing Mario Kart World or The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . Our editor, Gavin, is getting about the same running Welcome Tour , too.

This may be disappointing, though it falls pretty much in-line with what we expected given Nintendo's officially indicated 2-6 hours estimates and roughly the same as Switch 1 (befo

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