Xbox One:

Playstation 4

The thing to keep in mind is decibels is a logarthmic scale. What this means is the PS4 is acually several times louder than Xbox One up close (53db vs 43db is actually a huge difference)

The power figures are interesting, looks like maybe 20 watts less for X1.

On the one hand X1 CPU and GPU is clocked higher and it has ESRAM. Clearly the PS4's additional CU's and power hungry GDDR5 RAM more than made up for it though.

Well if I ever game right next to my console Ill be sure to use this info.

I usually use my Xbox for a pillow while gaming, so this is useful. LOL
no this is good, people get turned off by things that run loud. However My surround sound system slams. I recommend Klipsch speakers. Way worth your money if you want to invest into a nice system.

PS4 is quieter during bluray playback. Maybe you should re-work the title, since listing "idle, games/bluray" right before infers that the sound is also referring to those three things.

Anyway the power draw is less than the 360 slim and seems to be quieter too, so that's really great on Microsoft's part. Wish the standby was lower though.

Xbox One: Less power confirmed!

I don't know how accurate their measurements are. My projector is rated at 22db and I can't hear the ps4 over that while gaming. Of course I sit under the projector, ps4 is at the other side of the room...
The ps4 makes less noise then my ps3 slim anyway. (and my phat 360 is in a different class altogether)

I still would l'île to know where they are taking the temperature readings... Cause there is no way the PS4 overheats with a chip temperature of 45 C... And 49 C either for that matter.. But if this is the temp at the exhaust point this can only be relevant in correlation with the chip temp and heat sink temp... And this could tell us more... But pretty sure MS didn't fuck airflow it's not like they don't know this is the thing they can't fuck up....

Does anybody actually care about power consumption that much? It's not like these are megawatt machines burning though 15,000 orphans an hour to power them. 10 watts here and there is fuck all.

It doesn't quite work like that. Your perception of sound is not logarithmic matching the decibel scale. If you look at loudness comparison charts library whisper at 6 ft distant is ~30dB and normal conversation at 3ft distance is ~65dB. According to the dB scale that's about a 2500 fold difference (30dB diff = 1000x, and every ~3dB is ~double). But our perception of the difference in loudness between a library whisper and normal conversation is not that normal conversation is 3000 times louder than a whisper. And PS4 at max up close sound is less than normal conversation at 3ft. And at normal playing distance both consoles are closer to a library whisper than to normal conversation.

I would say sound difference is a non-issue.

The thing that concerns me is operating temperature. There's not a huge difference, but PS4 does run hotter and it's got less ventilation. So it will be important to keep PS4 well ventilated, and even put up on little blocks so there is airflow top sides and bottom. And keep the vents frequently vaccuumed.

I know i for one am going to leave my console in Idle for long periods of time, Playing games and standby mode are for losers.