Comments on: Environmental Impact of Video Games

By: Xphacter

Xphacter — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:36:01 +0000

How can you compare 2.5 B to 1.72 M, you are supposed to compare them in the same units for an effective chart. 2,500 M to 1.72 M http://xkcd.com/558/

By: L.

L. — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:53:31 +0000

If all the games nintendo made turned up in a landfill. … this will never happen.
would take nintendo 1453 years to recycle….. not if they did it all at once,
.4 galons of crude oil makes 1 lb of plastic. which kind of plastic?
If all games were DL…. yeah, I don’t think you did the math for ALL games….
more games than people. No shit, I own more than one game?!
the plastic used in consoles doesnt decompose. Well, I’d friggen hope not, Im still using it.
if C.O.D. were DL instead of manufactured….. then there’d be no midnight release lines…. wait, that one sounds ok.

By: thewood

thewood — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:10:09 +0000

Plus, most of those old systems will never get thrown away. Nostalgia is a powerful force to be reckoned with. I’ve also seen people take the shells of old NES’s and use them for homemade PC shells, things like that. I still own an Atari, it barely works but I keep it just so I can say I own an Atari. Ahhh, nostalgia.

By: thewood

thewood — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:05:41 +0000

They could just start selling the console digital downloads on their own sites, like Gamestop, Best Buy, and others already do for PC.

By: thewood

thewood — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:03:15 +0000

Not only this, but it’s kind of pointless to have your ENTIRE Steam library downloaded at once anyway. I only keep the ones I play regularly downloaded. With cloud saving you don’t even lose saved games if you delete the game from your hard-drive. That’s kind of the point of Steam anyway.