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JEMC said:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6465/nintendo-wii-u-teardown

Wii U Menu (No Disc in Drive) : 31.2W
Wii U Menu (Disc in Drive) : 32.8W
Super Mario U : 33.0W
Netflix Playback : 28.5W

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-wii-u-is-the-green-console

Front-End : 32w
FIFA 13 Demo : 32w
Netflix HD : 29w

It seems like the WiiU is always at 100% load, which is a bit odd :-/

I actually wonder if Nintendo hasn't done something to hold the power usage down at this point in time. As I understand it, Nintendo themselves said the system would use 45 W at peak.

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/41850/wii-u-specs-update-memory-and-storage-space-revealed/

So why are they all using about 33 W? Did Nintendo just do extra efficiency modifications in the last few months? Or are the launch titles specifically not using all of the available power? Or is it just that they haven't tested the appropriate games?