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[Cedeo]

According to research site Sust-it.net , if you spent £400 on a PlayStation 3 this year, you'll find that over an eight-year period you'll spend another £400 just powering the thing. It has a 380w power supply, meaning that if it is maxed out for two hours every day, it will cost you about £48 a month to run - and that's on top of the £40 a game that Sony also charges....


And while many gamers will see this as a worthwhile investment, it's important to point out that running a Nintendo Wii for the same amount of time over the same eight years will cost you £17. Yeah, just seventeen quid.

The Xbox 360 would cost you £165 while the original PlayStation 2 would use up only around £50 over the same eight years.

Figures used are based on numbers provided by Sust-it.net .

£1 = $1.975



http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/gaming/games-consoles/news/power-consumption-doubles-playstation-3-cost?articleid=1410931336

 

[kenta]

Oh here we go again

So the PS3's PSU is the new Xbox Live?

 

[Flek]

oh god this bullshit again

 

[Ryu1999]

When will the negativity around the PS3 ever stop? When?

 

[Relix]

Confirmed: Playstation 3 the cause of Global Warming

 

[Francias Castiglione]

$1 = £1.975

You've got that the wrong way around.

 

[Wario64]

Don't forget the monthly payments you have to make just to house the PS3.

 

[Haunted]

$1 = £1.975

... you might want to check that again.

 

[Ranger X]

zzz

Wierd that my electricity bill didn't went up at all since i have my PS3 heh?

 

[MickeyKnox]

:lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Duke Togo]

I wonder how much a high end home pc costs to run....

 

[pswii60]

you'll find that over an eight-year period you'll spend another £400 just powering the thing. It has a 380w power supply, meaning that if it is maxed out for two hours every day, it will cost you about £48 a month to run

Does NOT compute. (£48 per year)

 

[Draft]

And they say Live is expensive.

 

[Mr Nash]

Confirmed: Playstation 3 the cause of Global Warming

But it could also be a cure for cancer thanks to it using Folding@Home. Suddenly I'm morally confused as to where I should stand with the PS3.

 

[wotter]

I wonder how much a high end home pc costs to run....by the way you dolt, check your currency conversion.

http://www.twitchguru.com/2007/04/26/power_supply_matchup/

PS3 vs Quadfather

 

[tha_con]

This just in: Your mom will cost us $5,000,000 a year in order to research why on gods green earth you would search and dig for this article and post it as if to give us some new found guidance.

This also just in: PC Gaming uses more power. YIKES!?


[/madness]

 

[Gattsu25]

Don't forget the monthly payments you have to make just to house the PS3.

Or the television

Hell, how could anyone forget the price of cigarettes needed to appease the system, either?

 

[Raist]

"lolololol teh ps3 has teh 380W power supply ! then it r suck 380W"

 

[Alcander]

you'll find that over an eight-year period you'll spend another £400 just powering the thing.

about £48 a month to run

am I missing something here?

 

[Neo C.]

I somehow can't do the math.

Edit: beaten by pswii60

 

[QVT]

And they say Live is expensive.

[/img]http://modusproductions.com/neogaf/images/avatar/itapoint.gif[/img]

:lol

Some funny math going on in this thread.

 

[Ranger X]

Seriously, this thread should be "cat-ified".

 

[tha_con]

Or the television

Hell, how could anyone forget the price of cigarettes needed to appease the system, either?

Someone needs to find the picture of the PS3 air filter that cleans out ciggarette smoke :lol

 

[Community Forum]

Seriously, this thread should be "cat-ified".

 

[fatigues_gasolini]

Does the system ever consume that much power for two hours at a time? I play mine for about that much a day, and my electric bill has barely gone up. liars.

 

[Gattsu25]

you'll find that over an eight-year period you'll spend another £400 just powering the thing. It has a 380w power supply, meaning that if it is maxed out for two hours every day, it will cost you about £48 a month to run

Does NOT compute. (£48 per year)

So not only is the OP horrible at math, but his source as well?

 

[womfalcs3]

1.) You can't do math. (It's 50 a year)
2.) The PS3 doesn't run at its max power 24/7. Most of the time it operates at a lower power consumption.
3.) You can't do math.
4.) The X360's power consumption isn't far below that of the PS3.

 

[Duke Togo]

Seriously, this thread should be "cat-ified".

 

[Cruceh]

Seriously, this thread should be "cat-ified".

 

[tanod]

Does NOT compute. (£48 per year)

I calculated £4.17 per month which is about $8. Sounds about right. My power bill went up about $5 after leaving my PS3 on all the time.

It's hard to tell exactly though since electricity usage varies so much month to month for me.

 

[soco]

soon the ps3 will start to eat your grandparents medicine !

 

[Raist]

Does the system ever consume that much power for two hours at a time? I play mine for about that much a day, and my electric bill has barely gone up. liars.

Lots of benchmarks have shown that ingame it usually consumes like 180-190W. Seems like F@H makes it rise to 200W (heavy CPU and GPU intensive) according to Stanford.


For comparison, a normal gaming PC is around 190W, the 360 around 170-180 and a Wii around 20 (!)

 

[Draft]

[/img]http://modusproductions.com/neogaf/images/avatar/itapoint.gif[/img]

:lol

Some funny math going on in this thread.

He's saying, "We only have one planet, bitches."

 

[Mirimar]

Seriously, this thread should be "cat-ified".

I don't have a cat though..only an otter...

 

[wotter]

To put it into perspective, compared to Xbox 360, Wii and mid-range PC:

 

[Cedeo]

1.) You can't do math. (It's 50 a year)
2.) The PS3 doesn't run at its max power 24/7. Most of the time it operates at a lower power consumption.
3.) You can't do math.
4.) The X360's power consumption isn't far below that of the PS3.

I didn't write this bullcrap.

 

[tanod]

Confirmed: Playstation 3 the cause of Global Warming

You should post this in the folding thread and let me know how that goes for you.

 

[Raist]

You should post this in the folding thread and let me know how that goes for you.

:lol

 

[womfalcs3]

I didn't write this bullcrap.

Couldn't you read the first line and divide 400 pounds/8 years. Then derive the conclusion that the title you're writing is wrong?

 

[Gattsu25]

I didn't write this bullcrap.

you wrote the “bullcrap” thread title, and you made this “bullcrap” thread solely based on this “bullcrap” source

 

[1-D_FTW]

Why do people who know nothing about topics create **** like this?

People with kill-a-watts say PS3 is around 200-220 at load. Seriously, if people wanna create an effing article like that, maybe they could spring the 20 bucks for a Kill-a-watt device.

And for the people bringing up PCs, don't. Excluding the shark jumping ATI of recent, Nvidia's 1st really obnoxious card was the 8800. And the G92 looks like it's gonna be significantly more powerful, yet more efficient. So their 8800 line looks like more of a one time event of insanity (and even then, you can do dual core, 8800, 2GB ram, and an 80Plus power supply and probably break under 200 watts at load if you don't overclock like mad.)

So it's really easy to build a gaming PC that loads significantly under 200 watts and idles at a LOT less than either PS3 or 360.

 

[dfyb]

To put it into perspective, compared to Xbox 360, Wii and mid-range PC:

/thread

 

[Community Forum]

I didn't write this bullcrap.

 

[test_account]

it will cost you about £48 a month to run - and that's on top of the £40 a game that Sony also charges....

Damn, Sony charges £40 for a game on top of that? I was expecting Sony to give away the games for free since it cost so much in electric bills

Spoiler

yes, i'm kidding.

 

[Ghengis Cohen]

I didn't write this bullcrap.

You didn't read it that well either.

 

[msdstc]

its for the cooling right? better than 3 redringsamirite? /sarcasm

anyways, why does this always get brought up?? I thought this was debunked in several different ways... I remember reading leaving ps3 folding constantly only costs like 25 a month if its 24/7 based on location it can be more or less, but I'm from taxachusetts, so it's quite a bit.

 

[Pristine_Condition]

It draws about 180 W during average gaming.

180 W is typically a little less than an average 50" plasma HDTV, and a little more than a 42" LCD.

 

[Cedeo]

you wrote the “bullcrap” thread title, and you made this “bullcrap” thread solely based on this “bullcrap” source

Yeah, I was quoting what the article inside said, hence the '