Leaving the PS3 plugged in and turned on all the time could add as much as $145 to your electricity bill every year. That’s what the Natural Resources Defense Council has concluded in a report issued this week.
Nearest we can tell, the report means that leaving your console in standby mode—not merely “on’ as in you’re actually using it—doesn’t do you any good. The only way to save money, then, is to turn your console off, that is, physically unplug it from the power socket.
The chart here shows the worst offenders, with the launch PS3 being the most power hungry. Of course, the do-no-wrong Wii draws the least power when left plugged in.
via The Consumerist
Looks like I am going to be unplugging my 360 from now. I guess it really does pay (or save) to unplug your electronics.
Wow..thanks for the heads up “un-plugs wii, reciever, 360, PS3 and lcd tv from wall”
Good article – but what about all of the “saved settings” that reset after a period of time without power? I don’t want to have to reconfigure all of my A/V equipment everyday.
On the plus side, it doubles as a space heater.
haha, space heater, that’s silly nvncblsprghueovknedrgy
I started looking into those UPS/Surge protectors that totally kill any power to a device once it’s gone into standby/”off” mode.
ex: Even though you turn your PC off the monitors, speakers, etc etc still are getting power. So when you do turn the PC off that’s plugged into one of these Smart UPS systems, it completely stops power running to everything. Thus saving green without having to physically unplug it all.
I forgot where I saw this, but it sounds like it’d be a good idea to get a couple (PC and TV/game area)
I picked one up for my PC. It rocks. Turn off the PC and the monitor, speakers, printer, scanner all cut off completely. No vampire drain. Turn the PC on and all come back on. Smart Strip LCG3, got it from amazon, well worth the $32.
Awesome! Yeah that’s the one I was looking at. I guess I’ll have to get one now too.
plugged in and turned “ON” all the time.
wel duuuuuuuuuuee,u dumb shits.
how about plugged and on when u play and OFF when u are over with the game.
So with a PS3, if I choose the convenience to leave it plugged in, yet turned off, I have to pay $1.25 a month? I think I can afford that piece of sanity.
Agreed, especially seeing its a bitch to reach the plug that’s behind a heavy TV cabinet.
I’d only leave a PS3 on stand-by if I wanted to use remote start
The text above is a bit misleading. The graph shows that in standby, you save around 90% of power compared to when it’s on.
When you reach behind the console and kill it (either by pulling the plug off or hitting the kill power switch, the consumption will be zero.
So the correct way to put is that is you leave your console on 24×7, it’s expensive. If you leave in standby, it’s way (~90%) better.
This is important, specially because someone might thin; “well, since standby is the same think, I will just leave it on”, which will consume much more.
It costs 15 a year to have it on standby. Who in the hell just leaves it on ALL day. ERRONEOUS ON ALL ACCOUNTS!
I like how the headline says only the PS3 when the 360 uses $143 a year ($2 a year less or 16 cents less a month). Why not say The PS3 and Xbox use an average of $144 a year. I am calling BS on this article for that reason alone. The media uses this tactic ALL the time.
When I plug my PS3 I lose all power to my apartment, even if it is the only thing pluged in.
What fucking retards leave their consoles switched on?