With a statement made today, Microsoft announced that it has signed a first for its popular console Xbox. The technology giant stated to Xbox Insider that the ‘carbon sensitive’ power mode has been added. Recently, it has been reported that this mode will be released for all Xbox console owners.
This innovation coming to Xbox is part of Microsoft’s moves to reach its carbon-neutral goals. The company, which wants to reduce its environmental impact, aims to reach its target by 2030. This update for consoles will also make significant contributions to the environment with its energy savings.
Downloads and updates are optimized to reduce the carbon footprint, allowing the console to consume 20 times less energy
To reduce its carbon footprint, the company says the console is optimized to perform updates and downloads while using renewable energy the most. Similar features were also available for Windows 11 updates last year. Once the console is plugged in, connected to the internet and has access to regional carbon intensity data, it will be directly carbon sensitive.
In this way, Xboxes will set game, application and operating system updates to certain times when carbon emissions are low. Note that the optimizations are only in shutdown mode. So it is not valid in sleep.
Also, the ‘shutdown’ mode on Xbox will be updated to ‘shutdown (energy saving)’. Thus, power consumption is reduced when the console is turned off; It will be ensured that factors such as performance, gameplay, updates are not adversely affected. Microsoft says that with the update, the shutdown mode will consume 20 times less energy than sleep, while adding that electricity bills will also decrease.
Innovations that will make Xbox the first console to be sensitive to carbon emissions will come for Xbox One as well as X/S. However, let’s add that those with the One console will encounter slower boot times when using the energy saving mode.
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