How much can you personally save? Depends on what brand you choose. The Sony Playstation 3 and Microsofts Xbox 360 use as much as nine times more energy than the Nintendo Wii.
Habits play a crucial role as well. The systems use nearly the same amount of power when they are turned on and idle as they do when you are actively playing a game or watching a movie. If left on continuously, the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 will consume the same amount of energy as two new refrigerators over the course
I just dragged my son upstairs (XBox 360 in basement) and made him read this post.
“Mom – who’s Donhusseinsquishviti??”
I saw this yesterday. This morning my room mate was playing his gaming system with a portable forced heater on and when I turned on the hairdryer, it kicked the electricity off. He’s been told he’d better start to keep one thing on at a time.
COMMUNIST!
Haven’t played any gaming system since the original Nintendo from 20 years ago…
Christ, if I got into gaming, I’d be so into it that I’d be a broke, lonely, divorced, fat loser.
So.. basically, the only change is that my wife would leave me.
Mike Matthews = Loser
The Wii is good fun. My wife and I have one and her parents do as well. Wednesday night is Mario Kart night over the internet against my old high school buddies.
I am all about the Wii as well – Mario Kart is sweet. Although the multiplayer was a little better on the Gamecube version where you could just hook up the systems directly with broadband connectors. I’ve tried with friends before to get like 4 Wiis going on different TVs but when running all those wireless signals through one router it just became a big clusterfuck.
Xbox. Worth $11 a year idle time. I’d pay a hundred.