That’s right, if you leave your Wii on for a whole year, if will only cost you $10 in energy cost and probably a burnt our Wii. Today the National Research Defense Concil released a report of video game and energy. The report states that gamers use as much energy in a year then the whole city of San Diego. Here are some details from the report.

  • watching a movie on your PS3 consumers 5 times the power of using a stand-alone Blu-Ray player
  • average annual energy cost for a launch model (2006) PS3 user is $160
  • the 2007 PS3 is more efficient: annual cost is $134
  • For launch (2006) Xbox 360 users, it’s $143; drops to $103 for 2007 models (GP: less RROD as well!!)
  • it costs $10 per year to operate a Wii
  • the game industry and game media should encourage console owners to use auto power-down features built into the 360 and PS3
  • the next hardware generation should be more efficient and have auto-power down
  • an auto-save feature should preserve game progress when the system auto-powers down
  • controllers should have a “sleep” button

Check out the full report HERE

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