UPDATE: All three Switch models re-tested.
It was an important question.
And these significantly alter the test results; power-use has been as much as halved in the newer models.
The complication comes from Switch being the only console that charges a battery.
This reduces the annual pull to 0.59 - a trace amount.
I hope you find it useful.
ORIGINAL STORY:Do you know how much money you’re spending powering your consoles?
Digital Foundry’s Tom Morgan then recorded the numbers in a table for this article.
There are a few things worth noting about the numbers.
Here are the numbers, then, which we’ll discuss section by section below.
Incidentally, were a machine to draw 0.5W all year, it would cost you 1.49.
It then wakes the consoles up once a day to check for updates and then download them if necessary.
I put this to Microsoft, looking for clarification, and I got it.
We tested it this afternoon and recorded boot-up times of 15 seconds.
Thank you all of the people who pointed this out below].
There are options for Rest mode on PS5, too.
We tested Rest mode with these options turned on.
But even though the consoles have idle modes, they don’t draw much less power.
Netflix streaming
I only recently upgraded to a television with streaming apps built in.
Before that, I used consoles to stream video.
There are benefits to it.
Overall, the Overwatch 2 results are fairly typical of a mid-range power-draw game.
The power-draw remained high no matter what we did.
Also, check your off timers.
We talked about PC power use inour environmental studypublished last year.
And PCs benefit from not having built-in ‘I’m not really asleep’ rest modes.
