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How environmentally friendly are your videogaming habits? Unless you’ve got your own wind farm in the back garden or a bank of solar cells on the roof providing all your energy needs and spitting the excess electricity back into the national grid, then probably not at all. Even if you have managed to build your own eco-friendly power station in the burbs, the eco warriors still won’t be happy knowing you’re squandering that energy on mindless fun when you could just as easily be providing the energy needs of a modest sanctuary for giraffes with cataracts.

Don’t think you’ll earn brownie points simply by choosing the most energy efficient current generation console on the market. That’s the Wii for those keeping score. Nintendo’s Wii uses only slightly more power than a jack-in-the-box.  So little power in fact that you might mistakenly imagine it must come with a crank handle…until you see the graphics it puts out, at which point you’ll be absolutely convinced. Just kidding. Seriously. Come back. I repeat, there is absolutely no correlation between a console’s power consumption and the power of a console.

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