Playing Madden NFL 11, the popular EA Sports video game, consumes roughly six times more electricity on the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 than on the Nintendo Wii, according to engineers at the institute’s lab in Knoxville, Tenn. The Wii drew an average of 13.7 watts vs. 84.8 watts for the PlayStation and 87.9 for the Xbox. (The figures do not count the TV screens that the boxes must be connected to.)
*Not really. We just don't want to have to buy all the games that go along with a new gaming system when we already have a Wii, a PS2, an iMac, 4 iPods, an iPad, a PC, and 4 cell phones in the house.