We want to save electricity and pay less on the bill month after month and there are some small changes that can make it less problematic to face the payment of this. Save a few euros each time the bill arrives. Tips and tricks that will make us save. For example, configuring your console so that it spends less.
We can configure our video game console so that it consumes less electricity and thus save on the bill. We always have them plugged in and the latest generation consoles are very powerful devices. The more power, the higher the energy consumption and this means that it can be a problem if it is always connected.
How much does a console consume? Microsoft details this on the Xbox support page, for example. In the case of the Xbox One S, an active game consumes 62W according to these data, navigation mode consumes 27W and streaming in UHD consumes about 36W, but we can consult all the details from the support website if we want to know how much we are going to pay or how much we can save
Power saving on Xbox
If we want to save energy, the Xbox has a mode and a series of functions that allow us to do it easily from the console settings … What Microsoft’s energy saving mode does is that the console automatically turns off after a while to save money. But there are some drawbacks and that is that it will take about 45 seconds to start. To do so, we must press the Xbox button.
But if it compensates you and you want to spend less, you can do it. The steps are:
- Press the Xbox button to open the guide
- We look for the section “Profile and system”
- We open the “Settings” section
- Let’s go to the ” General ” section
- We touch on the option “Power mode and start”
- We select the option “Power mode” in the drop-down menu
Spend less on the PlayStation
If what you want is to spend less with your PlayStation, we can do that too. We can activate Sony‘s sleep mode functions to spend less energy, to consume less and to pay less month by month. To access these functions we must follow a few simple steps, although it will depend on the console you have, but in all of them we can access the settings.
We go to the “settings” section of your PlayStation console and look for the “Power saving settings” option or the “Power saving” section. Here we will find “functions available in sleep mode” that we can activate or deactivate as we want to spend more or less, depending on each case.
For example, we can deactivate the option that keeps us connected to the Internet when we are in rest mode. Or we can disable others such as “supply power to USB ports” that will make the console not continuously giving power from sleep mode but will do so only when deactivated.
Also from the energy saving settings we can set a timer or a time for the console to turn off or we can choose when the controls will turn off.