This isn't fair, as the Wii was designed specifically with low power consumption in mind. But it can't do wrong to remind it, as lots of anti-Wii people are quick to forget all this engineering that's gone into the console, to make it energy efficient. So they say it is only a supped up GC, which is of course completely wrong, as no GC could be on standby 24/24 7/7, or use so few power.