too much shovel-ware for my liking is out already
If just the existence of shovelware seriously affects whether or not you'll buy a system, you should probably have never started playing video games. Shovelware has been around on home consoles since
at least the Atari 2600 (to say nothing of home computers), and the only console I can think of that doesn't suffer from it had other major problems to make up for it.
(Name the console and win a prize! But not really.)
Furthermore, can we please have a moratorium on the use of the phrase "shovelware"? Some of the things that are shrugged off as shovelware now would've been AAA titles twenty years ago, but because they're obscure/Asian/not
Call of Duty or
Madden, the shovelware label comes out again and again. In a lot of ways it has about as much meaning as "hipster" or, in Weegee's case, "weeaboo"; here it seems to mean "games I'm not interested in."
And the battery life is perfectly reasonable. Do you people just never charge your systems or something? Do you complain that your cell phone's battery life is too low when you talk on it for
six hours straight and it dies?