Do you leave your consoles on while you’re not playing them and if so, whats the longest you’ve left it on? does it matter if the system is disc based, cartridge etc?? why do you leave it on?

personally i was told by my parents to always turn it off when i was done. thinking this was a pretty normal thing to do until one of my friends shared with me that he always has his n64 running conkers bad fur day. if it isn’t, the powers out. I’m rather surprised, but curious if anyone else does this.

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    1 month ago

    The one I actually use? Yes. Technically.

    PS5 has a standby mode so it can still update itself and apps while “off.” But that’s not really OFF off.

    My other consoles (SNES, Dreamcast, OG Xbox, and PS2) are in a closet, unused. They wouldn’t be on if I did use them anyway. The main reason I don’t use them is because they all use composite video/audio connections and my TV doesn’t have those inputs :/