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Analysis of Consumption for Average Week:

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Analysis of Consumption for Average Week:

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Ipad usage= 9 hours a day= 63 hours a week.
Laptop Usage= 5-6 hours a day= 30 hours a week.
Game Console Usage= 1-2 hours a day= 14 hours a week.
Transportation= Walk down to local shops once or twice a week.
Food Wastage= 0
Recycle all of wastes plastics, cardboard, etc.

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What Happened to board games physical?
Do People mix Lego to make up their own story?
What Happened to Reading Physical copies of books?

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Energy use in cloud gaming.
"Digital Copies of games are being replaced by physical copies."
(My Thoughts) Would be better for environment since they would be selling less physical copies which means they wouldn't use the plastic, etc. to make many of the physical copies. But, this does mean they would have to create more extra storage chips, and more money would be spent to upgrade storage, because of covid-19 where is the money coming from with individuals losing jobs. In addition, downloading large games take a very long time to install on consoles which means more electricity being used.

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Microsoft is poised to launch its game streaming service, delivering high-end titles direct to phones - and Google already offers an equivalent service.

Cloud gaming promises top-tier graphics and performance without the expensive hardware - with no more massive updates or downloads.

But some studies suggests it could be more damaging to the planet.

One recent study from Lancaster University estimated that if gamers moved to streaming over the next decade, carbon emissions could rise by 30%.

What's the problem?

Instead of having a high-end PC or games console in the home, cloud gaming platforms run the software from a remote data centre.

All the graphics and sounds are streamed to a TV or mobile device over the internet. It's interactive - so unlike video streaming, those graphics and sounds are tailored to each player.

And the internet itself uses a lot of power.

"There are a lot of things that have to spring into action," explains Mike Hazas, one of the Lancaster University researchers.

Home wi-fi routers are just the first step, and we can't see most of it: the street corner communications exchange, miles of fibre-optic cable, core network infrastructure and - ultimately - the data centre.

All told, it involves "hundreds of computers, probably thousands", says Mr Hazas.

The Lancaster University study looked at three scenarios - one where streaming remains niche, as now, a middle ground, and one where 90% of gamers end up gradually switching to streaming over the next decade.

After the decade-long transition, they estimated emissions would be 30% higher per year from 2030 in the high-streaming scenario compared to a low-streaming one.

Such estimates are a matter of debate, and some academics told the BBC the assumptions for some figures used are too high. The Lancaster team also tried to offset the emissions tally by accounting for the carbon savings of fewer plastic consoles being manufactured - another rough estimate.

They also point out that their assumptions are based on game streaming at modern standard 720p and 1080p resolutions.

"If streaming at 4K resolution becomes widespread, then it may well be game over," the study warns.

Power up

"Despite the images of invisibility and purity conjured up by the word 'cloud', it is in reality populated with intense amounts of energy-using hardware," says Evan Mills, who headed up the Green Gaming project at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

And while his assumptions in 2016 were different from the Lancaster team, Mr Mills did come to similar conclusions.

Mr Mills had two scenarios - one in which only 20% of gaming was done using a cloud by 2021, and another where 75% of gaming time was streamed.

The cloud gaming scenario would use 17% more energy overall, he concluded.

For example, a 10-watt streaming device - like a media stick plugged into a TV - can use an extra 520 watts of power in the network and data centre - making the total greater than local desktop PCs, Mr Mills' team found.

In addition, a console, on average, uses 156% more energy when cloud gaming compared to local gaming - and far more than watching a film on a video stream.

They estimate roughly 300 watts of power is used in the data centre, and about 182 watts are spent on all the internet infrastructure in the middle - for every connected gamer.

"Cloud-based gaming is by far the most energy-intensive form of gaming via the internet," the team concluded.

Fair weather

There are arguments in favour of cloud gaming, however.

Gamers could use lower-powered, more energy-efficient devices at home, since all the heavy lifting is done in a data centre. And fewer consoles being manufactured means fewer in landfill at the end of their useful lives.

There are also no discs to make, and the cost of transporting them to physical stores vanishes.

Digital game downloads have already been replacing physical copies over time - but they have some of the same problems as streaming.

"Download sizes actually give streaming a run for its money," Mr Hazas says.

Some popular titles are more than 100 gigabytes in size - a long and power-hungry download process that streaming does not require.

At lower resolutions "it might be in some cases actually be better to stream", he adds.

Carbon neutral?

Microsoft says its cloud gaming servers "are more power efficient than a standard home console" and highlights that each server is shared by multiple users "which creates significant energy reduction".

Google says its data centres - such as the ones that run its Stadia gaming product - are twice as energy efficient as the average data centre.

And both say all their data centres are carbon neutral.

Being carbon neutral is a complex topic, but most major companies achieve it by buying carbon credits - investing in "green" projects to offset their emissions.

Shadow, a French firm which provides users with fully functional Windows PCs that they can access through the cloud, said it was very aware of the potential environmental impact.

But "overall, we are convinced that our model is much more sustainable than the old one, in which we multiplied devices that were always more rapidly obsolete," a spokesman said.

Big data secrets

Researchers doubt the efficiency gains in data centres are enough to offset the energy demands of game streaming - but admit they don't know exactly how the inside of corporate data centres work.

"A lot of stuff is secret," Mr Hazas says "so these things are really hard to model".

But things may yet improve. The Lancaster study acknowledged that it cannot predict what energy-efficient technology might lie ahead.

"There is a long history of detractors spinning factually incorrect stories about the internet's energy use.

"But it's also the case that improvements in efficiency have been offset by increased internet traffic," Mr Mills explains.

That is the opportunity - and the problem - for a cloud gaming future: more demand means more stress on the network, and any efficiency gains will have to improve at the same pace.

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Cloud gaming: Are game streaming services bad for the planet?

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Microsoft is poised to launch its game streaming service, delivering high-end titles direct to phones - and Google already offers an equivalent service. Cloud gaming promises top-tier graphics and performance without the expensive hardware - with no more massive updates or downloads. But some studies suggests it could be more damaging to the planet.

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More and more electricity is being used, powering gaming consoles for the children at home with nothing to do, especially during lockdown and school half terms. This is shown through following article.

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The connection between video gaming and global warming is mostly about energy use. In short, the huge growth in gaming, and the inefficiency of the consoles from the major manufacturers like Microsoft and Sony, has led to a surge in electricity demand associated with kids' enjoyment of Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox and other popular gaming platforms.

The first video games came out in the 1950s, but their popularity has increased exponentially since then with the advent of better computer graphics and processing. What's more, when technology in recent years enabled mobile gaming to be set in motion, the industry's potential skyrocketed. In 2018, the revenue for gaming products in the United States was US$18.4bil (RM79.62bil); industry analysts expect the figure to be closer to US$230bil (RM995.32bil) a year by 2022.

But this popularity doesn't come without an environmental price. For starters, the mass production of boxed video games - the kind that come on CDs or DVDs and which you load into your computer or console - generates tons and tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), the leading greenhouse gas. Researchers have found that (TILDE)0.39 kilogrammes of carbon dioxide are released into surrounding airspace with the production of each single boxed game.

While less than half a kilogramme of pollution doesn't seem like much, it adds up when you figure in how many individual games are produced. In the last year alone, the production of just one popular new Xbox and PlayStation game, FIFA 20, led to the emission of almost 600,000 kilogrammes of CO2, roughly equivalent to the energy needed to run 100 cars for a year.

The carbon emissions linked to video gaming don't just end at production. Once the game is purchased, it requires a gaming console to actually play it; these consoles are especially energy-inefficient. Certain gaming devices such as the Xbox Series X produce 0.07 kilogrammes of CO2 for every hour played.

Another way that video gaming contributes to the climate crisis is that there are a multitude of ubiquitous games that have extensive "play times", squandering substantial quantities of energy. Popular video games such as Assassin's Creed and Grand Theft Auto V can take upwards of 35 hours to complete - and that's just the main storyline, disregarding freeplay and extra "missions".

The average gamer will use more kilowatt hours of energy in a year than an energy-efficient washing machine. Meanwhile, heavy gamers consume almost three times as many kilowatt hours annually as typical moderate users.

But eco-conscious gamers (and parents) can be happy that Sony, Microsoft and other console makers are streamlining production processes to align with wider efforts to curb CO2 emissions, and consumers can expect future iterations of Xbox and PlayStation to sip electricity compared to current models.

Likewise, most new games are available for digital download these days which spares the packaging and shipping - and related greenhouse gas emissions - of individual CDs and their plastic-wrapped boxes. - E/The Environmental Magazine/Tribune News Service

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The connection between video gaming and global warming is mostly about energy use.