PS5 Will Be Less Power Hungry Than PS4, Says Sony

Hopefully it won't run so hot. My Pro could toast bread while I play games.

All I care about is the Jet like fan noise to be gone, the sound of my pro can be used in the next top gun movie...

First thing I think of when I hear lower power consumption is less fan noise!

@Giygas_95 What does it matter how hot it runs? Do you sit on your console while playing? If you are referring to the fan noise, it is because your console is dirty!

@Dubya75 Because too much heat isn't good for electronics and can shorten their lifespan? I dunno, maybe the PS4 was designed to run hot, but it certainly wouldn't hurt if it ran cooler. Mine actually doesn't make a lot of noise though.

@Dubya75 He's not the only one worried about the console running hot. Also you have to leave it on top your TV furniture and can't put it inside a cabinet like older consoles.

Any comment on fan noise, Sony?

Here's hoping they have taken some lessons from the X regarding cooling systems, so many times when playing the Pro I have to turn the TV up because of the fans

Cool, I usually use standy mode all night when I download a big games.

Cool because standby is useful in the days of silly big downloads and playing with kids that interrupt your progress!

@Nickolaidas Fans are always loud, especially the hardcore and the anime fans.

Will make little difference to me, as I usually power it down completely anyway. Very rare I use Sleep Mode.

But let's face it, the only way we're likely to make any significant impact on the environment at this stage is by controlling and/or reducing the human population.

10W in standby? That's nuts. Though I suppose it is always checking for updates and it can charge controllers and all of that, so not unexpected. Just a lot for us, our PS4 is on probably a couple of hours a week max, so many game son Switch lately.

So, did they say how much more power the new PS will use while it's being played running native 4k and all that? SSD supposedly uses less power while running than HDD but if hey got the idle rest state down to .5W they must have figured out how to lower that.

Well I suppose even if the new PS uses a bit more power while running the amount of downtime even for a hardcore gamer playing 5-6 hours a day still means 18-19 hours of idle time so the savings would be huge regardless.

10W? Maybe I should power it off when not in use, sometime sit's off for days or weeks at a time anyway.

Its pretty laughable Sony saying they care about going green. If they cared even one tiny little bit about the envionment then they would do away with physical games. Think of all 100s of millions of plastic cases and cd's littering up landfill for future generations to deal with.

Sounds like a consequence of installing to an SSD rather than a hard drive when in rest mode.

Really hoping the retail version of the PS5 has tons of cooling fans like the dev kit for optimal air flow. Overheating is one reason why consoles can go kaput.

Hopefully it will be a bit more quite. The Division makes my ps4 pro blow and overheat so much i have to put earphones in the hear the game.

@rjejr Maybe you should

I hope so. Nintendo is setting the standard with around 10 W usage on the Switch.

@rjejr yep 10 W is pretty high for standby. Especially considering Switch uses 10 W while playing games lol

@manu0 Didn't know that about Switch. Good to know though considering how much it's on. Must be really low in standby then.

@Flaming_Kaiser Drink some "Tea, Earl Grey, hot" and try to relax? Sounds like sound advice to me.

@Paranoimia That's pretty deep bro but you're right 🌍

I usually power off my systems completely. I don't even leave games open in sleep mode on my Switch or 3DS, which are arguably much more designed to do that, rather than a console chained to the TV.

When did just turning something off become obsolete?

@hotukdeals You know that data centers are not green either (if we Go streaming)