Greenpeace: Sony is "leading the way" on green issues
- Posted November 27th, 2008 at 06:43 EDT by
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According to an extensive Greenpeace report handily dissected by Edge-Online, Sony is far and away the most environmentally friendly of the current generation console manufacturers. The firm scored 5.3/10 in the 8th Guide to Greener Electronics - not perfect, but lightyears ahead of Microsoft on 2.9/10 and Nintendo on 0.9/10.
Greenpeace's toxic campaigner Iza Kruszewska commented that Sony was "clearly leading the way for the console holders," having been the first company to introduce a product take-back policy in the U.S. Sony also scored points for reducing the usage of chemicals like PVC and BFR in its products. Nintendo, by contrast, is "not engaging at all", while Microsoft is "just getting on board with the environment."
These findings seem to fly in the face of a recent National Resources Defence Council survey, which indicate that the Wii consumes far less power than either of its competitors, but according to Kruszewska the comparison is more than a little flawed.
“The Wii definitely uses much less energy than the other consoles," he explained. "But it is a completely different type of product. If you look at the graphics processor that your PS3 or 360 will have, it’s hard to put them into exactly the same category. I mean, the PS3 is being used by universities globally when they have lots of number crunching to do because it’s that powerful. We’re talking about a 9-core processor here.”
Be sure to check out the research in full.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 8:05am GMT - November 27th, 2008
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No but fanboys will proclaim it as an attack against sony and it will start yet another flame movement.
Sorta like that idiotic netflix thing in which colombia pictures were not there but SPHE movies werestill there. All of a sudden it was an insidous plan. I would consider that sloppy if they left films with thier COMPANIES name still available.
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Funeralfog |
blksabbath- 10:35am GMT - November 27th, 2008
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what? sony made greenpeace happy? im selling it. i want no support from those radical people
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SpyroViper
- 10:58am GMT - November 27th, 2008
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They don't even know what they are talking about. The PS3 uses the 8 Core cell version. 1 SPE is used by the OS, another 'for redundancy', that leaves 6 left for number crunching work. Greenpeace need to get more tecchy.
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