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Arkaign on 01 May 2014
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VitroBahllee said:
rolltide101x said:
VitroBahllee said:
Xbox One is on in my living room whenever the TV is on. The Xbox One turns on my TV and my Audio Receiver and my Cable Box. EVERYTHING watched in my living room either is generated by or passes through the Xbox One. Adding more to that cannot hurt.


So you add wear and tear to a console to watch tv? *face palm*


Seriously? I use a console the way it was intended, so you 'facepalm' because of it? Enjoy your next happy meal.

I think the 'wear and tear' is a bit silly. Probably almost no wear/tear if there is no disc spinning.

However I think the power usage is wasteful unless you're heavily using snap/etc.

Hopefully the next revision of XB1 addresses that. The power brick sucks a good bit of juice even when the unit isn't technically 'on'.

From another user :

I had to do a rough electrical audit of my house for a solar technologies, and I measured how much power the X1 is pulling. The numbers are higher than what I had seen reported before launch and thought some may find them interesting.

  • In game: 125 watts

  • Standy(with instant on): 33 watts

  • Watching TV: 122 watts

The biggest concern is how much power the Xbox is consuming while you are watching TV.

To put things in perspective my 52 inch Vizio draws 185 watts, so that's a 66% increase in power to watch TV with the xbox connected.

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The PS4 uses a good bit of juice in use as well. So someone using the PS4 to stream is using similar power to the XB1. But in the XB1's case, say you're using the XB1 to tune your cable box to your TV :

That means you're using :

Cable Box (15-75w depending on model)

XB1 (100w+)

TV (??W, too varied to mention)

Adding a little ARM hardware to the XB1 could cut that down to 5W or so, as the main system could truly go idle while the TV tuning is in use.