Clockspeed isn't always a linear increase in performance as other bottlenecks in a CPU's design comes into play.

However, in the Wii U's case, any boost is a good one, it brings up the "minimum system" hardware for next generation games that little bit more.

Didn't those guys who measured the Wii U's CPU clock speed say something along the lines of "maybe it was simply downclocked for the menus?" What if the CPU *always* ran at 3.2 GHz in-game and Nintendo simply upped the *menu*-clockspeed for faster loading times? Is this possible?

No - 3.2 GHz is definitely out of scope and would also push power-drain to levels the psu can't handle. Also devs also mentioned that the cpu is quite low and I think they should really know what this thing is running at.

With the ridiculously low power draw of the WiiU, this seems rather unlikely. Especially when you look at how simple the cooling system is.

I don't doubt they could increase the clock speed, but this would have been designed from the start to give developers a boost later in the products life cycle. There is no way they could increase it 300% and keep the power draw low and the system cool enough.

I've noticed the OS almost seems to run too fast, the animations and sounds for loading Miiverse on initial startup sound wrong.

That said, if things really have improved, we would need more rigorous analysis to see if there really is an in-game difference.

@ post above me: the further proof is also that people have tested the power draw of the Wii U through the menu and various games, and there was basically no difference before from running the console idle on the menu or playing the more resource-intensive games like Assassin's Creed 3 or Arkham City

could they of made
it slow on purpose?knowing they could update and make turn to its true speed?

They can just have optimized the OS to use less resourse (CPU, CPU, Memory) and became faster... that's happened with the PS3 and 360 OS too.

Ca Nintendo increase the clock? Yes.
They will do that? Unlikely.
3Ghz+? Impossible.

I agree that that is more likely the case, and that the more optimized OS code could improve Wii U performance because it isn't hogging as much resources all the time (and could possibly free up more RAM for games to use, as well)

I doubt that Nintendo increased the clock speed (as that meant they were holding it back deliberately in the first place, and why would they do that?) unless the new update has made the OS so much easier on the system that they just have less heat in general and can afford to up-clock a little (though not to the degree suggested by the OP)

The OS was definitely a bigger mess than anyone let on (except those enduring the terrible install times) if this is all the case.

lol some Nintendo's fans are not believing in @marcan.

This makes no sense.

I thought that the Wii U's advantage was simply being cooler than other consoles.