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I love theXbox Series X, but if like me you were lucky enough to get one of the earliest ones you might be wasting money: its instant-on setting meant that if you didn’t go into your console’s settings and enable the energy saver mode, youcould be wasting energyequivalent to the price of a brand new triple-A game every year.
As a result of this,Microsoftis now making it even easier to reduce your Xbox Series X’s energy consumption, which is something you really want to be doing as energy bills get ever more ridiculous.
The news comes via Tom Warren ofThe Verge, who reports that new power options are coming to the console fairly soon. They’re currently in the Xbox Insider preview, where new features get tested before making their way to the rest of us.
What are the new Xbox Series X power options?
In the screenshot Warren shared, the Xbox claims to be using 0.5W in Shut-Down mode compared to 13 to 15W in Sleep mode. And Shut-Down mode will still download and install console updates overnight, so you don’t need to worry about missing anything when your console is at its most energy efficient.
Microsoft hasn’t said when the new power features are coming but they should be in a system update fairly soon.
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