PS4 and Power Consumption: Will Sony Go Green?
Like design and remote control, power consumption is also one of the key points that are being thoroughly debated these days. With “Go Green” being the buzzword today, critics hope that Sony will decide to join the Go Green revolution and market a completely eco-friendly product in the form of the PS4, which will consume almost very low power levels.
Well, very low power levels aside, something Sony will have to guarantee on PS4 would be a substantial relief in terms of its next-gen gaming console’s power-sucking capabilities. Everyone is quite aware of the fact that the PS3 is a huge fan of power.
In fact, you might be surprised to hear that simply leaving your PS3 on (yes, we’re talking idle status) for a year would cost you $ 157. Conversely, if you play it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. , it will cost you between 8 and 10 dollars more, what a total waste of energy, is not it?
However, it will be quite difficult to manage the big upgrades in performance with an eco-friendly design, especially without an optical media in the storage drive (assuming that PS4 will work online and games will be downloaded rather than saved to DVD / Blu-Disks. lightning bolts or hard drives).
Therefore, it can only be considered as sweet speculation, which seems so difficult to be a reality; However, Sony will have to make sure that the PS4 does not follow the line of the most expensive electronic / electrical gadgets to operate, even in standby or idle mode.
Microsoft’s X-Box 360 isn’t too great either, costing you around $ 125 per year even if you leave it idle, but Nintendo’s Wii is the complete opposite. The Wii is estimated to not even cost around $ 15 per year, if left idle.
Therefore, the next generation X-Box and PlayStation game consoles will surely have to worry about power consumption, if they want to remain competitive with the Wii2.
Also, if Sony does nothing about the power-absorbing nature of the PS3 and doubles the level of performance on the PS4, it would be really scary to imagine how much power the PS4 will actually consume, even if you leave it on for a couple of hours. months and go on tour.
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