Xbox Batteries = 1 day
Remote Batteries = 3+ months
How is that??
In: Engineering
There are a couple of basic pieces here that contribute to higher power consumption.
TV remotes aren’t connected to your TV, instead they only send out instructions when a button is pressed. This requires very little energy and also means that when you are not pressing a button there is no power drawn.
Xbox controllers are actively connected to the console, this requires some amount of energy to maintain. While it is not a lot(modern electronics are good with power consumption) it is a non-0 amount so you get a slow drain throughout.
The other (bigger) difference comes from the way instructions are moving.
TV remotes only send instructions in short bursts and don’t receive anything. This is pretty simple and doesn’t take much energy.
Xbox remotes have a back and forth with the console, you are sending and receiving many instructions per second (button presses, holding a joystick, rumbles etc.). This consumes much more energy because of the sheer number of things happening.
Apart from that, the rumble motors, various LEDs etc. all draw a bit of power and this adds up to reduce battery life.
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