PS4 and Xbox One proved to have the potential to consume three times more power than older models

The new type stationary game machine PS4 and Xbox One have already been released in Europe and the United States,Sales competition in the Christmas shopping season is intensifyingAlthough it is in the midst of now, both new models have higher power consumption than older models, and according to circumstances the result is that the electricity bill reaches 3 times.

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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)According to the survey results on the power consumption of both new PS4 and Xbox One game machines announced by PS4 and Xbox One, although both PS 4 and Xbox One have power saving functions and admit that it is evolving technically, It is said that the power consumption has increased considerably compared with the PS3 / Xbox 360 of the old model.

Xbox One has found that the power consumption during game play is increased by 40% compared with the old model Xbox 360, and PS 4 is about twice as much power as the old model PS 3. Also, it turned out that the power consumption of the new aircraft is larger than that of the old aircraft in both navigation mode and standby mode when not only when playing a game but also when watching a movie · selecting a menu . When adding these increased power consumption, the annual electricity consumption is tripled in some cases compared with the old model.

This is a graph showing power consumption in various modes of PS4 and Xbox One. PS4 and Xbox One also consume considerable power in navigation mode and streaming.


Compared to the power consumption during game play, Xbox One seems to be said to be more energy-saving than PS4, but on Xbox One the power consumption in standby mode called "Instant On" is about twice that of PS 4, so overall In fact it is clear that Xbox One consumes more power. Instant On on the Xbox One is a function to keep the user in a standby state so that the user can resume the game immediately, but even when the user does not play games such as late night, a large power loss will always occur. Since the Instant On function is enabled in the default state, it is pointed out that unnecessary power loss will occur unless you explicitly turn it off by the user side.

The amount of electricity consumed in the standby mode is surprisingly large, and in the case of the average model user, it accounts for about 33% of the annual electricity consumption in PS 4 and about 47% in Xbox One, and it is consumed in the game play I got more results than power. For the Xbox One, it is estimated that it consumes more power than a 50-inch LCD TV.


According to NRDC, as the generation change from old machine to PS 4 · Xbox One goes on, the electricity consumed by using these two game machines will be 100 to 11 billion kWh per year, which is the fourth in the USA Is expected to exceed the power consumption of all households in Houston, a large city.


NRDC requires PS4 to reduce the amount of power consumed at the time of game as much as Xbox One. Furthermore, it also points out that it is supposed to be able to keep the USB terminal power supply at standby which consumes electric power as low as 1 W or less like a laptop computer. In addition, regarding Xbox One, it is said that reducing the power consumption of the Instant On function should be a top priority. Then, inquiring about Apple TV and Roku, both companies are requesting that the power consumption to reproduce the HD picture quality movie is too high, further reduction of electricity consumption is realized by future update.