The whole "you could play one game of COD and save enough electricity to power an entire school" thing is a load of rubbish

First off, those numbers are calculated by the assumption that people have their console on for 5 hours a day, 365 days a year, which is not the case for a vast majority of people. To take this number and compare it to something else is just to try and make something look bigger than it is. <br><br>Humans have a history of overestimating the impact of trivial things. Examples include watching your food waste reddit on the front page (As if it has any relation to the real world), people cancelling their Netflix subscription because of something the CEO said in support of Israel, or blaming gaming of global warming when those numbers are either exaggerated or calculated inefficiently.