How loud is your Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii? A decibel comparison shows how much noise the consoles really make
Have you always been curious how much noise your console is really making, or which of the three consoles is the loudest or quietest? A Finnish magazine has made a comparison of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii consoles, and showed how loud the systems are depending on what they are doing.
Overview ordered from quiet to loud decibels by system:
Wii:
32,3dB — Playing games
22,9dB — Doing nothing
PlayStation 3:
28,7dB — Blu-Ray-movie
35,8dB — DVD-movie
35,8dB — Playing games
23,5dB — Doing nothing
Xbox 360:
38,1dB — HD-DVD -movie
35,7dB — DVD-movie
44dB — Playing games
36,0dB — Doing nothing
Thanks to Suomi for writing down the numbers.
30 November 2007 04:12Alan
Bear in mind that the decibel scale is logarithmic, so a direct comparison (“The Wii is almost as loud as the PS3!”) is misleading.
+3Db = twice the volume.
30 November 2007 04:17Alan
dB. Bloody phone.
