Sony has joined the Playing For The Planet alliance to announce that the next PlayStation will be more economical than the previous one in order to contribute to saving resources.
Increasingly, the video game industry is seeking to awaken awareness of the need to protect the environment and combat climate change. We saw so last week that Football Manager 2020 will be the first game with eco-friendly and 100% recycled packaging. Now the UN has agreed a new partnership with the Playing for the Planet alliance, and as part of it, Sony has first announced its strategy to combat climate change.
This strategy includes one new piece of information about the next PlayStation console. Specifically, Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan has confirmed that the next PlayStation will be more energy-efficient than the PS4. More precisely, for the time being, this does not refer to the entire operation of the console, but to the possibility of placing the console in the so-called. rest / sleep / standby mode.
It states that power consumption on the PlayStation 5 may be 0.5W in standby mode. Sony believes that by making millions of users these advances over the PS4 could save average power consumption per 1,000 households in the United States.
If we actually got that figure, the PlayStation 5 would be up to 17 times more energy-saving than the PlayStation 4, meaning it would consume a bit more power in sleep mode than the fully-shut down PlayStation 4. Admittedly, this only applies to rest mode, and maybe that's Sony compromises if it turns out that the full power console (while playing games) consumes more power than the previous PlayStation. Which is an easy scenario, given that it will have quite powerful hardware.
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