Just how green is your Wii? I know, it’s white, but you know what we mean. According to the US Natural Resources Defense Council the Wii is very green indeed, a veritable friend of the Earth. According to their research the Wii is the greenest of all the games consoles (which must make Sony and Microsoft very jealous, more jealous than the fact that the Nintendo Wii is outselling them across the globe).

The US Natural Resources Defense Council state that the Nintendo Wii uses less energy than any other games console when it is being played on, and when it’s on standby. This means that Wii owners can make savings on their energy bill while saving the environment.

So you’d expect Greenpeace, the company that lobbies to protect the Earth and the animal kingdom wherever possible, to love the Wii? You’d be wrong. Greenpeace has ranked all technology companies based on how green they are, the sort of chemicals they use and their use of recycling, and they’ve scored Nintendo with a very lowly 0.8.

Mobile phone giant Nokia scored a 6.9, which was the highest score, which is more than 8 times greener that Nintendo.