Maybe the ps5 will be biodegradable? Joking aside, maybe they will make it out of PLA.

They have inferred putting greener messages on the games. That can influence the type of game they choose to make or may make shoehorned decisions on including stuff in games not making sense.

Hell even oil company now go green, it doesn't mean they go green PS5 will be less powerful. Go green nowadays has become marketing tools , in fact none of it impact in real life.

It's not just the power consumption of the device.
It's also the energy required to manufacture said devices.

And it's also the offsets that manufacturers use to mitigate their carbon footprint.

I.E. It costs electricity to run a fab, some fabs deploy a ton of Solar Photovoltaic cells in order to offset that, it's about being greener at every single stop along the concept-to-manufacture-to-houshold-product chain.

Newer chips on a smaller fabrication process means less power draw for any given unit of performance.
Ryzen has proven to be extremely beastly at energy efficiency for instance.

It could also mean the machine is smarter with it's energy consumption when not gaming, I.E. Less CPU/GPU/DRAM time whilst downloading in the background or in standby. - Not having a mechanical disk to spin up and keep spinning helps too!

Being Carbon neutral and green doesn't mean giving up our consumerist ways.

Being more energy efficient doesn't always equate to less performance.
Chips have a performance/power consumption efficiency curve, often GPU's and CPU are run at much higher frequencies and thus manufacturers need to pump up the voltage in order to retain stability, which has a direct relationship with power consumption.

Being green is far from being political. It only becomes political when people make it political.

Everyone should strive to be greener.

Yep. Everyone loves to be "offended" over something, even if it's about being green.

They might be ditching the separate ARM CPU cores and DRAM and relying on the beefier Ryzen cores alone to help achieve it.
Or they might do the opposite and beef up some ARM cores.

Final Fantasy VII was all about sending a green message, so the game must have sucked.

I bet any amount of money that the internal PS5 components just happened to consume less electricity, and Sony marketing decided to spin that as "intentional" and that they're "going green".

Yes it is a marketing tool, but can have impact in the game development. Just look at Sony censorship to advocate for "womans right", or the changes in ND games, etc. Some stuff can be added to games and is good, others may be detrimental, and it isn't uncommon to make it wrong when you start shoehorning.

Being corporate it is always a possibility. But considering it helps engineering it may also have been intentional.

esp when it doesnt even make sense.

If this is about idle power usage, and standby power usage....... something that doesnt even effect the end user's gameing experiance.
Hell even if its stuff like makeing sure the packageing is more enviromentally friendly.... again it doesnt effect the gamer's gameing experiance.

How can anyone be upset over something like this?

"Not having a mechanical disk to spin up and keep spinning helps too!"

>So a disc-less future?

Wouldn't it be way more environmentally friendly, and healthier for everyone, if all PS services were taken offline once per week? A day to rest and pay respects to Kratos?

PS Switch Pro level hybrid as an efficient base PS5, along with a RX 5700 (XT) PS5 Pro that skirts the 4k/60 line, also being somewhat efficient.