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Review Study of the Ecodesign Voluntary Agreement for the Product Group: Videogames Consoles

701/PP/GRO/IMA/18/1131/10605 in application of Framework Contract No 409/PP/2014/FC Lot 2 Okopol TU Institute of WIEN Computer Technology Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Directorate Industrial Transformation and Advanced Value Chains Unit C1 - Clean Technologies and Products Contact…

• Energy efficiency improvements through Adaptive Auto-Power Down (APD) design can reduce lifetime energy consumption by 4% to 6% for consoles like the PS4 Slim, PS4 Pro, and Xbox One X.
• The gaming console market remains robust; global sales for the 8th generation reached 90.97 million units for the PS4, 43.15 million for the Xbox One, and 30.54 million for the Nintendo Switch as of February 2019.
• Cloud gaming data consumption is significant, with usage rates comparable to video streaming; for example, Nvidia Shield streams at an average of 15 Mbps, resulting in 6.75 GB of data transmission per hour.