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Next PlayStation Console Will Have More Power-Efficient Standby Mode

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda

President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan revealed on Sunday that Sony's next-generation PlayStation console will include a feature to suspend gameplay at a lower power consumption than the PlayStation 4, with an estimated power consumption of around 0.5w.

Ryan noted that if one million users of the console use the feature, it will save electricity consumption equal to 1,000 U.S. homes.

The feature is part of "Playing for the Planet," Sony's partnership with the United Nations Environment committee.

Sony previously noted in April that its new console has been in development for four years, and will not launch in 2019. The Wall Street Journal tech reporter Takashi Mochizuki reported in April that Sony's next-generation console will not launch within the next 12 months. The console will be backward-compatible with PS4 games, as it is partly based on the PS4's architecture.

Sony has shipped more than 100 million units of the PS4 console worldwide as of June 30.

Source: Official U.S. PlayStation blog (Jim Ryan)


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