I recall the GameBoy Advanced SDK docs stating something along the lines of "Even if your game is so simple that it won't strain this tiny processor, please opt

I recall the GameBoy Advanced SDK docs stating something along the lines of "Even if your game is so simple that it won't strain this tiny processor, please optimize it for speed as much as you can anyway so that you can spend as much time as possible sleeping in low power mode between frames. That way the battery will last longer. Your customers will notice and they will tell their freinds." I think that sentiment is closer to what the article was trying to get across.