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[RoadHazard]

Usually rest mode, but usually I close whatever game I was playing first. I don't trust games to not glitch out in some way by being left in rest mode.

Every now and then I fully turn the console off, or do a restart, to get a "fresh boot". This is probably pointless, it just feels right to me.

 

[Little Mac]

If I'm taking a break and plan on playing again later that day, I'll put it in rest mode. Before I go to bad though I'll shut it down.

 

[thefool]

Rest mode if i know i'm gonna play more that day
Shut down every other situation.

 

[Synastry]

For me its the 30 minute rule.

If I'm gonna play again within 30 minutes I put into rest mode.

If I'm not gonna play again within 30 minutes I turn it fully off.

Its how I done since ps4 days.

 

[cormack12]

Sometimes I do one, and sometimes I do the other. I can't vote!

So it's 50-50?

 

[Aion002]

I always shut it down and unplug it from the power outlet.

 

[RyRy93]

I always shut down not to save energy but I think what if there’s a power cut while it’s in rest mode and it corrupts something important

 

[DelireMan7]

Shut down. It saves a bit energy and I am always a bit scare that something happen in rest mode (power cut...) and corrupt something.
Don't see the point of rest mode for my use.

 

[ChoosableOne]

I always shut it down because of occasional power outages. If I need to download something or plan to play again shortly, I use rest mode.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Always used to shut it down, but the minimal amount of power it uses in rest mode plus the fact it can charge the controller and download updates etc, I leave it on rest mode constantly.

 

[The_Observer]

I used rest mode with ps4 but never on ps5. It had some bug around launch (which I guess was eventually fixed) that bricked systems or something like that so I avoided it like the plague and grew accustomed not using it since it boots up quite fast anyway.

 

[Pedro Motta]

Rest Mode 90% of the time.

Shut Down only when I am on vacation away from home.

Same, but still, some times now i even let it on rest mode so I can eventually use remote play. Especially when I'm travelling for work.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

I usually shut it down unless I'm charging controllers. Updates and downloads typically don't work in rest mode for me, despite selecting the settings to download updates and games in rest mode.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Always shut down unless I'm downloading something while out/overnight, boot up is quick, no point leaving it in Rest Mode.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

I always use rest, even when I'm travelling, I'd like to have access to my console for some late night gaming action using remote play, also, to keep the games fully updated, that way I don't have to wait for patches to download on my play time. Shut down for me, it's only when I clean the console or take it from my main TV to my PC desk for some KB & Mouse sections of COD.

 

[saintjules]

 

[Bojji]

HMmm. How much does it cost you to run your ps5? In general whats peoples electric bill per month?
Should make a thread about cost for running consoles, pc's etc in a household.
See the difference world wide. Could be interesting

I don't know numbers for PS5 alone.

For me it's enough that my monthly electricity bill is like ~80% more than one year ago...

In Europe electricity is not cheap anymore. There is no point in leaving things only partially turned off (especially with fast storage that gets you quick boot times).

 

[mayham2199]

I don't know numbers for PS5 alone.

For me it's enough that my monthly electricity bill is like ~80% more than one year ago...

In Europe electricity is not cheap anymore. There is no point in leaving things only partially turned off (especially with fast storage that gets you quick boot times).

Your electric bill went up %80 from leaving your PS5 in rest mode?

 

[Garibaldi]

Never shut down since we had the option. I want it always up to date and available for remote chiaki4deck play.

Ice caps be damned! Go find another home Mr. Penguin.

It costs basically nowt in rest mode. It's about 3 watts or something, less if you disable usb charging and use a proper charge station like all the cool kids do. That's 333 hours per KWH. It's 29p per KWH. Absolutely nothing.

 

[bundylove]

I don't know numbers for PS5 alone.

For me it's enough that my monthly electricity bill is like ~80% more than one year ago...

In Europe electricity is not cheap anymore. There is no point in leaving things only partially turned off (especially with fast storage that gets you quick boot times).

Its interesting.

My home bill per month , electricity and gas is around 300 to 350 canadian. For 2500 sf.

And we use a lot. Lights are also on all day.

For my shop my monthly utility cost all in is around a thousand. But running large machines all day plus office front etc.

Thats why i was wondering what the costs are world wide

 

[Guardian Monkey]

Patches=rest mode

 

[fart town usa]

Rest mode 99% of the time.

 

[EDMIX]

Rest mode either the ps5 or series x depends on what game I wanna continue on the steamdeck via remoteplay.

Well that makes legit sense

I don't do any remote play or stream anything, so 99% of the time my system is off.

I think I only do rest mode when I want to charge my PS5 controller, download a game or if I'm like really lazy and about to go to sleep and can't find the remote lol

 

[Bojji]

Your electric bill went up %80 from leaving your PS5 in rest mode?

No. It went up because: inflation, Ukraine war, stupid government and few other things.

There is no need to get it higher by leaving things in (useless) rest modes. Only thing I leave in rest mode is tv.

 

[PaintTinJr]

I don't know numbers for PS5 alone.

For me it's enough that my monthly electricity bill is like ~80% more than one year ago...

In Europe electricity is not cheap anymore. There is no point in leaving things only partially turned off (especially with fast storage that gets you quick boot times).

That just isn't true. The power footprint of consoles and FireSticks is RaspberryPi level, so we are talking 5watts maximum, but typically average about 2watts because of inactivity.

Put it in context, that's 0.048KwattHrs per day, and in a month 30 x ~50 = 1.5Kwhrs per month or about £0.50 (at £0.35 per Kwatt Hr Or about £6 per year.

With the minimum wage being more than that for even the youngest workers in the UK, I'm pretty sure having all the updates in a year run for £6 while your console is in rest mode cost you far less than your time than them being done when the console is drawing 70-90watts in the UI while you are twiddling your thumbs waiting hours for 50gb patches to download to play while waiting in your personal million pound an hour free time.

 

[Rob_27]

My external 2tb ssd for ps4 games always had issues with rest mode even though the usb ports are active. Ooh something went wrong or you didn't shut it down properly. Hang on you're the system you fkn do it.

 

[Fbh]

I used to leave it in rest mode 99% of the time.
But eventually I grew annoyed about both my Ps4 and Ps5 for some reason being really unreliable when it comes to updating games during rest mode. Half the reason I used rest mode was because it was supposed to automatically update games, but I'd still constantly be met with unexpected updates when trying to launch multiplayer games. On Ps4 using rest mode still made sense because of the longer loading, but now on Ps5 where that's rarely an issue anymore I'm finding fewer reasons to use it.

Also where I live we get brief power outages like 4-5 times a month and I don't like going through the whole "rebuilding database" thing and having the console angrily beep at me for not turning it off the right way.

 

[Bojji]

That just isn't true. The power footprint of consoles and FireSticks is RaspberryPi level, so we are talking 5watts maximum, but typically average about 2watts because of inactivity.

Put it in context, that's 0.048KwattHrs per day, and in a month 30 x ~50 = 1.5Kwhrs per month or about £0.50 (at £0.35 per Kwatt Hr Or about £6 per year.

With the minimum wage being more than that for even the youngest workers in the UK, I'm pretty sure having all the updates in a year run for £6 while your console is in rest mode cost you far less than your time than them being done when the console is drawing 70-90watts in the UI while you are twiddling your thumbs waiting hours for 50gb patches to download to play while waiting in your personal million pound an hour free time.

PS5 isn't the culprit here, but when you add other devices that suck power in rest modes it builds up.

I also have 1Gb/s internet for years now and PS5 download speeds are pretty much maxing it out, I don't see much need to use rest mode to download stuff (sometimes for ~1h or so).

 

[PaintTinJr]

PS5 isn't the culprit here, but when you add other devices that suck power in rest modes it builds up.

I also have 1Gb/s internet for years now and PS5 download speeds are pretty much maxing it out, I don't see much need to use rest mode to download stuff (sometimes for ~1h or so).

Which is fine, that's your choice, but you are burning more energy and wasting more money on electric doing it that way, so your original point is invalidated by virtue of not saving more money or electric...and losing gaming time too.

 

[Bojji]

Which is fine, that's your choice, but you are burning more energy and wasting more money on electric doing it that way, so your original point is invalidated by virtue of not saving more money or electric...and losing gaming time too.

I mostly download games when playing other games so it's not turned on just to do that.

 

[DrFigs]

lots of weirdos shutting down for no reason. oh no it might cause my electricity bill to go up by 40 cents

 

[mclaren777]

I have been using rest mode for the past 11+ years without incident.

PS4 > PS4 Pro > PS5 > PS5 Pro

 

[PaintTinJr]

I mostly download games when playing other games so it's not turned on just to do that.

I'm pretty sure other games don't get downloaded in the background while playing native PS5 games, and they need updated in the UI, or at least 99% sure that was the case originally, unless I'm miss remembering.

 

[TrebleShot]

I'm pretty sure other games don't get downloaded in the background while playing native PS5 games, and they need updated in the UI, or at least 99% sure that was the case originally, unless I'm miss remembering.

It most definitely does download as you play.

 

[PaintTinJr]

It most definitely does download as you play.

Even when playing PS5 games and only having the default NVME SSD? I was sure I tested that in the early months of PS5 and found running PS5 games paused the downloads until pausing out to the menu. Weird, well at least that misconception is being dispelled

 

[TrebleShot]

Even when playing PS5 games and only having the default NVME SSD? I was sure I tested that in the early months of PS5 and found running PS5 games paused the downloads until pausing out to the menu. Weird, well at least that misconception is being dispelled

Yes it will only pause if it's a mp game for bandwidth

 

[PaintTinJr]

Yes it will only pause if it's a mp game for bandwidth

Well I did test it with CoD single player as one of the games IIRC, so maybe that was a oddity

Either way, it is still pulling more power to update games in the background while playing than low power rest mode, not quite the 70watts more of the UI, but probably still 3x or 4x more power, because the whole console is active rather than the slave rest mode Pi board

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

100% shut down completely.

 

[ArtHands]

Yah i shut down my PS5, because I only use it once in a long while.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

I turn mine off.

 

[chinoXL]

Rest mode all day since day 1. Definitely with the ps portal added to the team

 

[DeepEnigma]

But I thought these slacktivists wanted to save the planet, climate change, unnecessary energy consumption and all that malarkey?

 

[PendekarRajawali]

Shut down all my consoles and unplug them.

 

[Sharius]

rest mode, 'cause i can remote play with it from my work place

 

[loktaiextatus]

I shut the TV off and the PS5 goes into rest mode on its own, I dont even choose.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Would use it but there is always the pulsing light and PS5 is in my bedroom.

If it were on the main tv then rest mode all the way.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Shut down!

 

[Arachnid]

Lmfao why would I shut down?

 

[ComputerBlue]

The only time I put it into rest mode is if I’m downloading something in the background, or if I need my controller to charge, but then at the end of the day I’ll shut it down either way. I usually shut it down.

 

[MISTER INVEIGLER]

I go long periods without playing sometimes, but my PS5 is always in rest mode. It's nice to wake up the console whenever I do decide to play again and not have one thousand different updates just to start playing again.