Wal-mart Calls For Greener Gaming

[Mr.Pandah]

Maybe its because if you leave them out on store shelves in such small disk cases SOMEONES GONNA STEAL EM ALL NOM NOM NOM

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Hahahahahahah! XD....walmart....enviormentaly freindly....hahahahaha!!

 

[GothmogII]

Maybe its because if you leave them out on store shelves in such small disk cases SOMEONES GONNA STEAL EM ALL NOM NOM NOM

Umm...but the cases are in most cases (is that a pun?) empty, so, yes...it could technically make them easier to steal. But, who wants a collection of stolen game packaging?

 

[Hey Joe]

Well, yeah, it's a publicity stunt but I remember Greenpeace...or the Greens party or something Green running an awareness campaign on high-power consumption in relation to gaming, and they make a good point.

Think about the manufacturing process and the raw materials that go into the units, and then the packaging, and the the shipping energy, the energy used by gaming stores, then finally consider the juice we use by simply playing every day.

But with that argument, just about every manufactured product wastes just as much, if not more, energy.

How many manufactured products use as much energy as an XBOX when they're on? Even on standby they use a huge amount, I think from memory it's almost as much as a TV or maybe even more.

 

[GothmogII]

Well, yeah, it's a publicity stunt but I remember Greenpeace...or the Greens party or something Green running an awareness campaign on high-power consumption in relation to gaming, and they make a good point.

Think about the manufacturing process and the raw materials that go into the units, and then the packaging, and the the shipping energy, the energy used by gaming stores, then finally consider the juice we use by simply playing every day.

But with that argument, just about every manufactured product wastes just as much, if not more, energy.

How many manufactured products use as much energy as an XBOX when they're on? Even on standby they use a huge amount, I think from memory it's almost as much as a TV or maybe even more.

From CNET - TVs:
Average plasma: 350 watts
Average rear-projection: 212 watts
Average LCD: 213 watts

Other A/V gear:
PlayStation 3: 197 watts
Xbox360: 187 watts
Average PC: 78 watts
DirecTV HR20 DVR: 33 watts
Wii: 19 watts
Slingbox: 9 watts
Wireless router: 7 watts

Take that PS3! Sorry ^^' But I'm glad my love the PC came third highest.
Haha, but the Wii beats them all, lowest power consumption of the gaming platforms.

 

[jthwilliams]

Well, yeah, it's a publicity stunt but I remember Greenpeace...or the Greens party or something Green running an awareness campaign on high-power consumption in relation to gaming, and they make a good point.

Think about the manufacturing process and the raw materials that go into the units, and then the packaging, and the the shipping energy, the energy used by gaming stores, then finally consider the juice we use by simply playing every day.

But with that argument, just about every manufactured product wastes just as much, if not more, energy.

How many manufactured products use as much energy as an XBOX when they're on? Even on standby they use a huge amount, I think from memory it's almost as much as a TV or maybe even more.

From CNET - TVs:
Average plasma: 350 watts
Average rear-projection: 212 watts
Average LCD: 213 watts

Other A/V gear:
PlayStation 3: 197 watts
Xbox360: 187 watts
Average PC: 78 watts
DirecTV HR20 DVR: 33 watts
Wii: 19 watts
Slingbox: 9 watts
Wireless router: 7 watts

Take that PS3! Sorry ^^' But I'm glad my love the PC came third highest.
Haha, but the Wii beats them all, lowest power consumption of the gaming platforms.

Not to beat a dead horse but your xbox/PS3/Wii got nothing on the vast majority of appliances

http://www.askthebuilder.com/B178_Common_Wattage_of_Household_Appliances.shtml


And yeah. Seems like a stunt. In a country of nearly 600,000,000 cars and trucks doing something that will nearly have the same effect as removing 4,000 of them, doesn't seem like a whole lot. Maybe they could figure out how to cause each car cause .05% less damage cause that would be like removing 300,000 cars and seems easier than moving all games to cardboard and less likely to kill trees too. And yes that was .05% as in less than 1% ( 5% of 1% to be exact)


Sorry that was the part I found most funny. Specially since 600,000,000 is only cars in the US and they are talking ww packaging changes.