Sony Interactive Entertainments Jim Ryan hadde noen gode nyheter å dele denne helgen da han annonserte et nytt samarbeid med United Nations Environment-komiteen kalt the Playing for the Planet alliance.
En av de store fordelene med Sonys involvering er firmaets løfte om å senke karbonavtrykket, og Ryan lover endringer som vil spare store mengder elektrisitet samt øke bevisstheten blant spillerne (en måte de ser på å gjøre dette er ved å bruke PSVR som en mulighet for å utforske emnet). Her er hva firmaets president og CEO har å si om deres innsats, og Sonys planer for fremtiden:
"At SIE, we have made substantial commitments and efforts to reduce the power consumption of the PS4 by utilizing efficient technologies such as System-on-a-Chip architecture integrating a high-performance graphics processor, die shrink, power scaling, as well as energy saving modes such as Suspend-to-RAM. For context, we estimate the carbon emissions we have avoided to date already amount to almost 16 million metric tons, increasing to 29 million metric tons over the course of the next 10 years (which equals the CO2 emissions for the nation of Denmark in 2017).
"I am also very pleased to announce the next generation PlayStation console will include the possibility to suspend gameplay with much lower power consumption than PS4 (which we estimate can be achieved at around 0.5 W). If just one million users enable this feature, it would save equivalent to the average electricity use of 1,000 US homes.
"From an operations point of view, we will complete a carbon footprint assessment of our gaming services and will report the energy efficiency measures we employ at our data centers. We are
committed to informing consumers of energy efficient console set-up and use."
Her håper vi at selskapets rivaler blir med i denne alliansen og sammen kan vi/alle gi et positivt bidrag til dette initiativet, selv om kanskje Ryan sa det bedre:
"We believe games have the power to ignite social change through educating people, evoking emotions, and inspiring hope. We could not be more proud to be part of the Playing for the Planet Alliance and the commitments announced. We look forward to seeing what the industry can achieve together."
Bra saker, Sony.