Will the PS4 outsell the XBox One and WiiU?

[AnthonyW86]

Pemalite said:

snowdog said:

And Anthony, you're not bursting anything at all. The Wii U can draw up to 75W, even with USB devices attached that still leaves plenty of wiggle room for the GPU to have a dual graphics engine. None of the games released so far are even beginning to push the Wii U hardware. Once a game that taxes the GPU more appears we'll get more of an idea of the power draw that the GPU has. You'll end up hearing in October once 3D Mario is released.

No, Anthony is correct.
It's logic.
If the Wii U can draw 75W, then that entire power draw will not be dedicated to just the GPU. - The Optical Drive, Flash Drive, Chipsets, pieces-of-other-logic, CPU, RAM will all take a chunk out of that number.
Plus the Wii U's GPU is built at 40nm, that's going to mean that less Transisters are dedicated to graphics or higher power consumption compared to if it was built at 28nm.
With that said, 40nm is incredibly mature, so it's cheap to fab chips on.

The 75W is the rating of the power supply, it has nothing to do with the actual power consumption. A poer supply always has to have headroom and it also has to be able to recharge the controller and ppower other USB devices.  This is from actual testing: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6465/nintendo-wii-u-teardown

 

''also took some power measurements on the Wii U. The system is powered by a 75W external power supply, but total system power consumption doesn't even hit half of that (at least with the games I tried):''

Wii U Power Consumption
	System Power Consumption in Watts
Standby (Power Off)	0.22W
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

 

 

Other tests confirm power consumption in the 30W in games, and it's much lower than ps3 and X360: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-wii-u-is-the-green-console

	Wii U	Xbox 360S	PS3 Super Slim
Front-End	32w	67w	66w
FIFA 13 Demo	32w	76.5w	70w
Netflix HD	29w	65w	62.5w