Rumor: Nintendo set to refresh Wii internal hardware, 65nm CPU/GPU coming

[theRepublic]

bdbdbd said:
@theRepublic: I didn't mean it wouldn't be impressive at all, but that it's pretty basic trick since the device isn't a heater to begin with.

@KillerMan: Yes, and Nintendo is far behind in power consumption aswell.

Considering that heat tranfer coefficients for forced convection are generally an order of magnitude greater than for natural convection, I'm not sure its so simple.  You mentioned Nintendo might increase the size of the heat sink, but unless they change the size and shape of the Wii, I'm not sure they will be able to add much to the heat sink.