hardcoreware.net — The console war takes an interesting twist here, as the power consumption levels of each of the 3 new consoles are explored in this article. Video game playback, DVD playback, and other console functions are tested, and the results are quite interesting!
Feb 21, 2007 View in Crawl 4
1krazykoreanFeb 21, 2007
Wii rocks, anyone up for mario kart
daleechFeb 21, 2007
Watts is joules/second
lowlightFeb 21, 2007Submitter
LOL after being called an XBOX 360 and Microsoft loyalist since our guest editorial from a game developer, this is an interesting change. Now we hate Microsoft and love Sony!Interesting how people can conceive words in such strange ways!
memobugFeb 21, 2007
Interesting, I suppose, but power consumption is my last consideration in choosing a platform or game... or a website.
hulkFeb 22, 2007
I don't really care that much about power consumption.I'm MUCH more concerned at how crispy hot my wii gets when I leave connect24 on. It gets way too hot considering it's not doing anything.
wjtrocksFeb 23, 2007
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carzorstelatisSep 6, 2007
'However, I tested power consumption of the PS3 under Blu-Ray playback, and the XBOX 360 playing a 720p WMV-HD video downloaded from the XBOX Live Marketplace. Not exactly the best indicator of performance, since HD-DVD will be using a different codec. But this is the best I can do for now.'Actually, iirc HD-DVD uses VC1 which is the standardised version of WMV.
carzorstelatisSep 6, 2007
Yes, you're the only one who cares. 160W is two or three lightbulbs. Big deal.
carzorstelatisSep 6, 2007
Would probably be higher than the X360 using WMV-HD. Why? Because as well as decoding the hidef video, it's got to run the drive as well. OK it has its own powerbrick, but still...
carzorstelatisSep 6, 2007
Hmm... or maybe they did it because their target market is interested in gameplay quality, rather than 10000p HD Pixel Shader 5 graphics.