Strictly out of interest, I wanted to ask earlier if this irresponsible way of causing insane, instant, bandwidth demands is breaking anything on the ISP/CDN side or even the console owner ?! Or is it just an interesting phenomenon that is handled without a sweat. Does it break the buck in anyway?

The thread started with bandwidth surges and now power hogging is mentioned, I wonder what else might happen as a side effect to a small number of console/gaming companies not taking a direct responsibility in how they release large updates in a way that is not organized or scheduled but is rough and abrupt. 

~A

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:33 AM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:
The discussion about what the consoles can or can not do is honestly not solving anything. 

Saying that the consoles should or should not be doing a thing is simply trying to throw the problem to someone else. 

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 15:40 Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
On 2020-02-12, at 20:45, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
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> Aren't most modern consoles on whether they're "on" or not? IE: It's not a full power up from a dead stop, 0 watts power usage.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7528/the-xbox-one-mini-review-hardware-analysis/5
says two-digit standby power (which they say is needed for background updating).  At least in Germany, nobody sane will leave the thing in that expensive mode (a watt-year is $3 here).  Switchable extension power cords are being actively marketed here for these power hogs.

Grüße, Carsten