PS3 Sucks Up Five Times as Much Energy as a Fridge, Ten Times as Much as a Wii

[jesta]

Compared to basically every other appliance you have plugged in at home, the Playstation 3 sucks up more juice. That's according to a new study by Australian consumer agency Choice, which found that when a PS3 is running, it sucks up five times more energy than a refrigerator. If you leave it on all the time for something like Folding@Home, you're looking at an energy cost of nearly $250 a year.


The Xbox 360 isn't all that much better, using 23.57kWh per week when idling compared to the PS3's 31.74kWh. The Wii, on the other hand, is downright dainty in comparison, using only 2.97kWh per week when idling, less than 10% of the energy used by the PS3.


It's all a good lesson to simply turn off your console, whatever it may be, when you aren't using it. I'm not one to disparage the good work done by Folding@Home, but if you leave your console cranking away on it all the time you'll spend enough to go out and buy a Wii by the time a year is up.

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[Johnhg7]

Even when it's off they still use some power

 

[pkf0rtzh4ar]

Even when it's off they still use some power

thats why you should not let it plugged in

 

[Johnhg7]

right

 

[shadowofchaos]

Wow... didn't know that... that's insane.... 5 times more than our fridge? Maybe I should tell my friend that....

 

[Johnhg7]

but once you spend 400 on a game system you wouldn't just sell it because it pollutes

 

[Sousanator]

Hmm... waste energy, or help science

Oh well, I'm living with all expenses paid and I could care less for the world when I'm dead.

I might as well keep the systems running all the time so I don't waste that precious time to boot up.


BTW, the Wii wastes the most energy when its 'off' because of WiiConnect24

 

[Johnhg7]

I've noticed that there is always a light of something on with the wii

 

[gunners-4-life]

well, c'mon sony, my friend told me this, a ps3 usees more energy than twin 9800 vid cards, which have 1gb playing at the highest resolution

 

[Johnhg7]

ha thats great

 

[Danny]

Well... as a Playstation owner... Me and my cousin play Call of Duty 4... Alot... so it's on for a while... but if you want to save energy.. there's an off switch in the back.. that turns off the whole system.. completely.

 

[Johnhg7]

Well... as a Playstation owner... Me and my cousin play Call of Duty 4... Alot... so it's on for a while... but if you want to save energy.. there's an off switch in the back.. that turns off the whole system.. completely.

But it still uses power when its off, like a cell phone charger.

 

[metroid0070]

Buy a Wii stay green!

 

[LinkHylian]

maybe thats the reason why the PS3 is so big.would that also mean that the PS2 sucked up more energy than the gamecube.

 

[gunners-4-life]

lol, a lightbulb takes up more power than a computer speaker (2.0 kind) and the speaker is bigger