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Users criticised the amount of power used by a PlayStation 4 during standby mode Getty
Users criticised the amount of power used by a PlayStation 4 during standby mode Getty
The environmental cost of standby mode: why leaving our devices on idle is no better than leaving them on
The issue of standby power is significant, given the many millions of consoles that are, at any given time, plugged in but unused
Rhodri Marsden
10 October, 2019