One of the advantages of having a console is that not only does it keep us entertained for many hours a day with lots of video games but, on top of that, It is compatible with most movie and series applications in streaming so it is not necessary to leave the same place to continue with that digital leisure binge weekendweekend. But there is a small problem that you have never noticed if Netflix or any other is your favorite. Do you know which?
The power without control
There was an old television ad that said that "power without control is useless" and that has practically remained a universal truth. And that, which was applicable to a brand of tires, we could almost take it without changing a comma to the realm of consoles, It doesn't matter if they are new or old generation, although it is true that in the case of PS5 the data is overwhelmingly negative.
Applied to PS5 comes to mean that the console, to launch the video games that run through your veins, You need hardware that is not cheap, neither economically nor energetically. That is to say that while we enjoy God of war ragnarok This consumption is justified by the graphic display and the work that the CPU or graphics card have to carry out, but when we talk about playing a simple series on Netflix... the price we pay no longer rents us as much.
As you may have guessed, the drawback of using a PS5 to watch Netflix is that we are killing flies with cannon shots, making available to an app a torrent of graphic power and energy that is not needed and, therefore, making the electricity bill absurdly more expensive, which, as you well know, is not the time to waste.
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consumption differences
Now, in numbers, how much are we talking about? Well, as the Flatpanels HD portal has been able to investigate, watching Netflix on PS5 means consuming 25 times more energy than if we do it on a Chromecast of Google. And if we prefer Xbox Series X, the next-gen from Microsoft, that amount is only 18. It is a slight saving but within an extraordinarily high amount of waste.
Keep in mind that both PS5 and Xbox Series X have a consumption of 80W and 57W respectively, which is a real savage if we compare it with the 3,2W of a Google Chromecast or the 4W of the Cupertino model, the famous Apple TV. So the next time you want to watch a series or a movie, we recommend that you think about it a little.
At any rate the problem is not only energy since other limitations must be added obvious since they are not platforms focused on the reproduction of streaming content only, such as the lack of technologies that do use those HDMI keys from Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. And they are HDR, for example, which in the case of consoles becomes forced and not native for this type of content, or the lack of compatibility with much-needed standards such as Dolby Vision or Dolby Atmos.
As it is... are you going to use your PS5 next time to watch Netflix?
A rush of power? Is Sony already sponsoring here?
Hopefully Lewis, hopefully Sony will put money into advertising for us. (It would be perfectly indicated, calm down).