Following on from my posting on my new centameter power usage monitor, I came across this interesting article at www.dxgaming.com.
They did some testing of the power consumption of common consoles and made the discovery that the latest consoles use between 5 and 10 times more power in standby than their predecessors – so, an XBox uses 0.4W in standby, but the new XBox360 uses 2W. The Playstation and Playstation 2 is a near identical story. They have an interesting discussion about why these figures may make you switch off your Playstation 2 when not in use, but not your XBox360 – worth the read.
