game console automatically wakes for a few seconds hourly to check for updates," he added. "If an update exists, it downloads and installs it and then goes back to sleep at less than 1 watt. This results in a trivial amount of energy spent for background updates compared to Microsoft's current energy-guzzling approach."Further still, Horowitz called out Microsoft for failing to mention that one of the biggest reasons why the Xbox One uses "so much power" in the Instant-on state is because of the Kinect voice recognition feature. This lets people with a Kinect camera simply say "Xbox On!" to wake the console up.
We've reached out to Microsoft to see if they have anything new to add regarding the NRDC's comments today. We'll update this post with anything we hear back.
People who already own an Xbox One can choose the Energy-saving Xbox One option through the Settings menu.
Horowitz ended his blog post by saying he is optimistic that Microsoft's engineering team will come up with solutions to improve the Xbox One's overall energy consumption.
"We are thrilled that Microsoft's talented engineers are now hard at work trying to develop user-friendly, energy-saving solutions to these issues and are optimistic the results will be consistent with the company's historic leadership position on environmental sustainability," he said. "We'll report back on the results."
From:
www.gamespot.com
