Like other companies that have recently emphasized the importance of investing in environmental protection projects, Sony Interactive Entertainment, the company responsible for PlayStation, has also proposedA project called Playing for the Planet, expected to be lowered byThe next next-generation game consoleThe resulting cumulative electricity savings are enough to power more than 1000 homes in the United States.
Prior to this, Sony had revealed that it hopes to achieve this by the end of 2040.Target of using 100% green energy, and it is expected to achieve 2030% green energy operation before North America in 100.
In order to cooperate with the sustainable development goals of the entire group,Jim Ryan, President of Sony Interactive EntertainmentThe Playing for the Plane plan, proposed earlier, is based on the current PlayStation 4's global cumulative sales performance, emphasizing that the next-generation console will be designed with a new SoC processor platform, which will not only reduce the proportion of necessary materials used, but also have a memory hibernation design, allowing the game console to consume only 0.5W of power when in standby mode. At the same time, the overall power usage requirement will be lower than that of existing models.
Therefore, Jim Ryan said that the electricity saved by 100 million new next-generation consoles is expected to provide electricity for more than 1000 million households in the United States. If calculated based on the current sales performance of PlayStation 4 in the tens of millions of units worldwide, the expected electricity savings will be even more astonishing.
Regarding the network operation service platform that is indispensable for games, Sony Interactive Entertainment also emphasized that it will continue to reduceInternet service platform and the data center behind itThe accumulated carbon footprint emissions are expected to be reduced, and we hope to reduce the impact of the gaming industry on the environment.
According to information currently released by Sony, carbon emissions have been reduced by 1600 million tons at this stage, and it is expected that carbon emissions will be reduced by a total of 10 million tons in the next 2900 years.
