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Nintendo still dead last in Greanpeace Guide to Greener Electronics

Posted Jan 8, 2010 at 9:14AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: PSP, Wii, PS3, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 Tags: Greenpeace, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony

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Nintendo once again ended up in last place in the 14th edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics. The company has consistently ranked at the bottom of the list in the guide's last three editions.

In this edition, Nintendo has a score of 1.4 out of a possible 10. The continued existence of PVC in Nintendo consoles is among the problems listed. Nintendo already said that PVS is subject to early withdrawal, although the guide notes that no timeline has been given.

Microsoft is right there in at the bottom with Nintendo, edging out the Wii and DS maker by only one point and placing 17th out of 18 companies. At 2.4, Microsoft's score actually fell from 2.7 due to "[failure] to support strong chemicals legislation."

Of the big three, Sony ranked the highest at 7th place. The company maintained its overall 5.1 score with a better energy total, but Greenpeace says that Sony still has to lobby for stronger chemicals legislation.

Via [Greenpeace]

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The biggest problem is the amount of 360's that RROD and get dumped in the trash, but Nintendo consoles are made to last and people could be firing up their WII in 20 years like i still do with my old NES, but these envirofreaks never take longevity into their calculations, just like people who buy a hybrid car every few years when overall keeping and old gas guzzler for 10 years creates less polution.

# - — APerson 2010-01-08 14:53

Le sigh.

Nintendo are always marked near last because they don't voluntarily give the appropriate information to Greenpeace. Everyone else does, so what GP run off for Nintendo is their (publicly available) shipping data.

In Europe, Nintendo use recycled cardboard boxes (not shrink-wrapped like Microsoft peripherals), support rechargeable and replaceable batteries, they also have the lowest power of all the current gen consoles. They would actually score quite high. They just don't give a toss about Greenpeace's opinion since they have no leverage or power whatsoever.

As ever Greenpeace = a living joke of an organisation.

# Nintendo and GreenPeace — Neuromancer 2010-01-08 18:22

That is because GreenPeace marches up to Nintendo and arrogantly demands access to their most top secret R&D areas ... "or else". That's why N gets a zero - they aren't going to let GP tour their whole facility. N wont be dictated to by a group who has no ties to them whatsoever. Good for N.

-1 # Good For Nintendo! — thedolphin13 2010-01-08 21:35

So sick of these elitist narcissistic tree-hugging morons…I’ll buy the system that ranks dead-last in their dumb-a$$ rankings just to support the company thumbing their eye.

-3 # - — APerson 2010-01-09 07:16

What I also don't get is that when demand rocketed for the PSP, the Xbox or the PS3, the respective manufacturers opened another factory to ease demand. However Nintendo refuses to do so... which is why they're are always hard to find during holiday seasons.

Adapting another factory to ease demand is a huge waste of resources for minimal gain. Yet I bet you 100 tree dollars that Greenpeace didn't even take that into consideration. The whole thing is based on what information is offered to them, for free. They don't pay for that information and don't acknowledge that Nintendo could actually be the most "green" (which I doubt they would be).

-1 # lol — hypercoyote360 2010-01-09 13:47

Since when has environmental research been scientific or accurate? Just wait till Al Gore gets ahold of this.

-1 # ... — symbal 2010-01-09 14:36

Problem is Greenpeace is big enough to influence all those dumb people not able to have their own thoughts about any issues so science and fact mean nothing to them, and they also the people that organise protests against these businesses and end up causing problems, i bet 99% of Greenpeace membership fits that description.

-1 # Gryph — ShadowGryphon 2010-01-09 20:39

More to the point, why do we care what greenpiece (yes that was on purpose) thinks? Oh right.... no one does.

Eco terrorists are still terroists.

# wow — slack04 2010-01-11 00:04

reading the comments just reminded me why i don't like stupid people. thanks, stupid people! now, get back to watching fox news.

# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2010-01-11 16:20

The only thing missing is the fact that the results of GP mean absolutly nothing.

GP can suck the exhaust pipe of my super charged 5.4 V8 F-150.

# Guest 2010-01-12 12:48

the one with the best gameconsoles is better than freaking ds and xbox!

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