Nintendo Highlights The Environmental Benefit Of New Switch Packaging

That power consumption stuff is especially important to me. Haha, incredibly high energy prices...

To be fair, it's not hard to position the Switch as the more economical console when the other two are raising game prices and console prices (mostly Sony because of ballooning budgets to be fair, but Xbox seems intent to follow), and they also drink electricity like a drunk goes through wine.

Who knew stepping away from the graphical arms race would mean you can make a profit on every console sold, giving you greater price flexibility if needed instead of selling for a loss and then raising prices so you don't sell for even more of a loss, and also meaning you don't have to spend as much on games meaning those orofits don't just go into the next sequel, but across the business to fund more variety and niche products to get a broader userbase buying the console that makes a profit.

Funny that

So would the energy efficiency of the OLED be a good thing to bring up to my partner to justify why I need one then?
I still have the OG Pikachu/Eevee switch and i play exclusively docked save for rhythm games, so he see's it as pointless.

I'm joking... mostly, but damn that Sploon3 one looks fresh.

Another company making cost savings and then trying to play that it's an environmental benefit, pfft. .

Is there any option to remove Nintendo Life's related articles? It's so annoying.

@dew12333 It's both, not a binary issue. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Make the system more power efficient, cheaper for consumer to use, especially now.

Less packaging? Cheaper to make, less waste, can transport more units at once as each takes less space.

@Haruki_NLI it is both. But they didn’t do it for the environment. They did it to reduce shipping costs and packaging. Because shipping costs and packaging were the primary reasons bringing up the environment benefits sure sounds more like marketing than anything else.

@dew12333 Yep, and I'm usually the first person to defend Nintendo on most things....

But this is clearly a cost reduction lever, packaging and logistics costs. Nothing wrong with that, but they could be transparent about it - we're reducing these costs AND helping the environment...

@sixrings Sure. But is it a bad thing that they dont feel the need, in a slide to investors, state outright "Cheaper innit"?

I imagine right now, pushing this angle is to get more investors, because no duh it's cheaper, all these people care about is money, but if you can highlight it's environmental too, chances are you can pull some more investors in.

And let's be honest, everything in these slides is marketing, environmental or not. Look how well out games sell, invest in us please. Look at our subscribers, give us more money now.

Plus, I recall Nintendo had in previous years come under fire from various angles for not being transparent enough or doing enough with environmental responsibility. I can imagine this is now going to be a regular thing with the environment becoming more of an issue, and the history of groups going "Are you sustainable?"

In terms of energy usage. The Switch wins big time compared to PS5, Xbox and PC. It's one of the main selling points if you want to game as "green" as possible

@Pillowpants i would love to see some stats about how many people purchase their system bases it off its environmental packaging. Maybe I live in my own weird world where I get at least a couple packages bigger than a switch box delivered to my house daily by Amazon. I must be a green monster but I do recycle.

Let's be honest if it was more expensive they wouldn't give a s*** about the environmental benefit lol

I mean if Nintendo want to go extremely environmentally friendly, my suggestion is scrap the Switch and start back up the Wii U.

Make the demand for games and the console non existent and you have yourself a winner. Very very environmentally friendly.

Might go bankrupt, but hey that helps too in this aspect.

Wouldn’t a digital only system be the most environmental friendly. Or what about Xbox which is going to just let you use an app on your smart tv and stream the service. Even better. But give them a check for being environmentally conscious.

@sixrings Digital only depends on whether or not data is saved on the cloud or not. Cloud server parks are not environment friendly.

Nintendo has now lauded the Wii, Wii U and Switch as all being low energy consuming and power efficient. This is a little worrying for the raw tech specs of the Switch 2, especially as a lot of us just want the docked horsepower to be much better.

@Slowdive ok Nostradamus

@Slowdive
Ummm ok....

In comparison, the both xbox series consoles use 10 watts just in standby and PS5 350 watts in gameplay. I predict the Switch to sell well this holiday season in the UK.

This hobby of ours isn't exactly an environment-friendly one (as with most, if not all, electronic hobbies), so as long as product quality isn't compromised and Ninty doesn't go overboard believing every single climate scare that crawls out of the woodwork, every little bit helps.

The reduced power consumption is nice, but really 12w was already incredibly low. My TV uses something like 100w, so that 6w reduction is largely irrelevant.