Nuclear power plantDX Gaming has posted a nice article the compares the power consumption of today's and some of yesterday's consoles.

Just leaving the console on standby consumes quite a bit of power, with the xbox360 costing about $2.63 a year. Just displaying the 'dashboard' shouldn't be as processor intensive as running games, but the difference in power consumption between those states turns out to be surprisingly small. Both the Microsoft consoles can easily compare to a very bright lightbulb - 61W & 145W - when running the dashboard. Respectively 70W and 165W playing games.

Wish I could scan in the most recent copy of famed Japanese magazine Famitsu Weekly, because it is a 20th Anniversary Issue which contains several retro-gaming articles, including a large supplement with mini-reviews on the best games up until the end of the PSX era.

Although my knowledge of Japanese is fairly limited, it's still very interesting to flip through the photos and see what games Japan's most popular gaming magazine considered significant (hint: every Dragon Quest game ever made is on the list).