Sony Interactive Entertainment-bossen Jim Ryan lät under den gångna helgen via Playstation-bloggen utannonsera att de inlett ett samarbete med United Nations Environment i ett projeklt kallat Playing for the Planet. Sonys bidrag handlar i huvudsak om att minska utsläppen av koldioxid, vilket samtidigt betyder lägre elektricitet, enligt Ryan. Såhär säger han om framtiden:
"At SIE, we have made substantial commitments and efforts to reduce the power consumption of the PS4 by utilizing efficient technologies such as System-on-a-Chip architecture integrating a high-performance graphics processor, die shrink, power scaling, as well as energy saving modes such as Suspend-to-RAM. For context, we estimate the carbon emissions we have avoided to date already amount to almost 16 million metric tons, increasing to 29 million metric tons over the course of the next 10 years (which equals the CO2 emissions for the nation of Denmark in 2017).
I am also very pleased to announce the next generation Playstation console will include the possibility to suspend gameplay with much lower power consumption than PS4 (which we estimate can be achieved at around 0.5 W). If just one million users enable this feature, it would save equivalent to the average electricity use of 1,000 US homes.
From an operations point of view, we will complete a carbon footprint assessment of our gaming services and will report the energy efficiency measures we employ at our data centers. We are
committed to informing consumers of energy efficient console set-up and use."
Vi håller såklart tummarna för att alla andra i spelvälden tar efter och hakar på samarbetet. Eller som Ryan själv säger:
"We believe games have the power to ignite social change through educating people, evoking emotions, and inspiring hope. We could not be more proud to be part of the Playing for the Planet Alliance and the commitments announced. We look forward to seeing what the industry can achieve together."
Bra jobbat Sony.
