To work towards a sustainable game, Sony has revealed that the PS5 will be much more energy efficient than its predecessor, the PS4.
Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony, announced in an article on the PlayStation blog that the PS5 was equipped with a game sleep feature that uses less power than the PS4. Ryan estimated that the consumption of PS5 could be reached in 0,5 watts.
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"The next-generation PlayStation console will include the ability to suspend play with much lower power consumption than the PS4," Ryan wrote. "If only one million users activate this feature, this would represent a savings equivalent to the average energy consumption of 1,000 American homes."
This is part of Sony's sustainability drive, which wants the company to join other leaders in the video game industry in "making formal commitments to contribute to the efforts of the UN committee." for the environment through a new association, the Alliance Playing for the Planet ".
This disc is not only about next-gen hardware, but it will also affect the game that Sony plans to bring to its platform.
"Our commitments are not just hardware and operations, we also want to inform stakeholders of sustainability goals," Ryan writes. "We are committed to working with industry and climate experts to develop reference information that can be used by game developers who want to include sustainability issues in games, and we will explore potential applications for PS VR." to raise awareness about climate issues and experts "