Long-term readers of the gamesblog will recognise that I am partial to a bit of environmentalism. Surely it goes with The Guardian territory. So when MCV reported on this year's Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, I turned my eye from my compost heap to the rankings of the major console manufacturers.
And lo if Nintendo didn't come out on bottom! From the article:
Nintendo scored zero out of 10 points on its first time out in the listings - the first company to ever perform so badly. The platform holder was attacked across the board in areas such as chemical management, PVC use, electric waste and product return policies.
Meanwhile, Microsoft, manufacturers of the notoriously power-hungry Xbox, received a low score, but performed better than Nintendo overall. Grasping the lead, then, is Sony.
These are pretty surprising figures. Both Sony and Microsoft have a much larger library of electronic goods than Nintendo. Perhaps it was their policies on those items that pushed them further up the ranks.
