Nonprofit organization Natural Resources Defense Council conducted a survey on the consumption of electricity for the game consoles of the latest generation. It was discovered that Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's Playstation 4 used 2 to 3 times more electricity than the previous generation of consoles.
Xbox One spends 289 kilowatt-hours yearly (there is a large consumption due to the use of voice commands), compared to the Xbox 360, which had a consumption of 70 kilowatt-hours per year. Nearly half of this annual consumption (44 %) refers to consumption in standby mode. Playstation 4 had a consumption of 181 kilowatt-hours of energy per year mainly due to inefficient charging controllers and other accessories for the console via USB. For comparison, the Playstation 3 console has had an annual consumption of 64 kilowatt hours.A positive example of energy efficiency is Nintendo, which reduced annual electricity consumption from 40 kWh of the previous generation of the Wii console to 37 kilowatt-hours of the latest Wii U console. For more information about the survey check the official site.
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