Nonamer Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 It's been 2 months since I've left my consoles back home for college, and I am considering bringing them up by 2012. However, I've also become much more active in environmental activism, and I wonder if my main hobby has been a huge source of environmental degradation. I'm worried that as the consoles and the computers become more advanced and gaming becomes more popular, we will be consuming more energy to satisfy our demand for better graphics and expansive gameplay. Of course, with more downloadable content, cloud gaming, and disk-less games, that impact is reduced on the manufacturing end. If it turns out that gaming is a serious hazard, I may have to abandon console gaming (and probably computer gaming) for the sake of the environment. Do you guys think that as time goes on gaming will become greener? Should the industry take steps to reduce its ecological footprint? I sincerely hope this is in the right forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 If you're worried about gaming's impact on the environment, go dig up a copy of ET instead of downloading from Steam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushfire Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Actually your car puts out less emission than a cow. BAN COWS!! GAMING IS SAFE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Actually your car puts out less emission than a cow.BAN COWS!! GAMING IS SAFE!! That's actually a scientific fact isn't it? Yeah, people should be more worried about eating meat than not buying games... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 It's as green as a power hungry computer can get. PC Gaming is actually pretty green. At least, with downloads. No packaging, no nothing. That's less paper/plastic/what have you used on selling hard copies of games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonamer Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 This was one article that caused me to take into question the energy consumption question: http://www.shacknews.com/article/56006/environmental-group-rates-console-energy# EDIT: I think this may be outdated. I heard somewhere that the consumtion rates for the newer models of PS3 and 360s are not as bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Didn't you know, Microsoft has constant wars going on in Darfur just to collect enough blood diamonds to build xbox360s. You can do your part and not buy games, but that won't stop them from stocking up on Pony Adventure 2012 for the Wii. You should just buy the good games. :3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederic Petitpas Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 [........] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidd Cabbage Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I... wait. No, this is a joke. Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleck Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 my stool is green and my stomach feels strange please help me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalzon Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 my stool is green and my stomach feels strange please help me It's all those toxic videogames! Stop eating them. But seriously Nintendo and Sony are consistently called out due to their shoddy environmental practices. Selling a paper card in thick anti-theft plastic packing (wii point cards, for example) is pretty environmentally-unfriendly. I suppose you could stop gaming to send a message, or perhaps just indulge in your hobby and responsibly dispose of and recycle your own waste. Either way, you are handling it in a responsible manner. It's up to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROTO·DOME Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 As I recall, computers, consoles, tvs and stuff are some of the least energy consuming things in the household. Kettles and power showers being some of the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 at least if you're not running any bitcoin mining operations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 If tankers spilled billions of gallons of Xbox360s in the gulf, I would quit gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moseph Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Seems appropriate to link to this: Pie calculated to ten trillionth digit The calculations required were so intense that Kondo's computer heated the air in its room to nearly 40 °C. "We could dry the laundry immediately, but we had to pay 30,000 yen [$400] a month for electricity," his wife Yukkio told The Japan Times.Also:The study' date=' noticed by Slashdot, found that American console players consume 16 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, on par with the entire consumption of the city of San Diego, California. So we can just demolish San Diego and it'll be like gaming is totally green. Like a carbon offset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brycepops Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 So we can just demolish San Diego and it'll be like gaming is totally green. Like a carbon offset. How dare you. I live here ._. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coop Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Let's make biodegradable video games! That way, they can sell it too you again and again like Square-Enix on a remake binge, because your previous copy rotted away. I figure a life span of about ten years, that way the consoles any such game was released on are defunct, and they can jack up the price because it's "retro." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgeCrusher Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Don't worry OP, I'll make sure to pollute, use up power, and waste the environment enough to cover us both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tensei Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 The easiest way to lower your ecological footprint is to get rid of your dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Damned Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Get a portable game system (GBA SP, DS, PSP, etc) and buy a solar panel charger. Charge everything from the sun. Fuck the electrical infrastructure of the man. But then someone will complain about how you're exploiting the sun for energy, or that solar panels are toxic or some shit. Really, you're pretty much always going to be doing something to the environment, so fuck it: just go with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 If games destroy the environment, then what effect do game remixes have? OC ReMix, LLC jk but no really the emissions from remixes are destroying the ozone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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