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