Hi guys, I found a recent report on the consoles power consumption. Doesnt look like a big deal but this report further proves what i mentioned about the wii and wii u not reaching the maxium power consumption due that the tests are done with early port games.

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/05/17/the-wii-u-is-the-current-console-that-consumes-the-least-amount-of-energy/#comment-963639

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THE WII U IS THE CURRENT CONSOLE THAT CONSUMES THE LEAST AMOUNT OF ENERGY

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As you can see the wii is consuming like 40 watts and not the 17 watts that was reported years ago. This makes sense cause the 17 watts reported were done by testing a gamecube port like zelda twilight princess. The early reported 33 watts for wii u was done testing games like mario bros u and some early port games

Wii and wii u are using a power supply with an efficiency of >=85% and obviously nintendo wasnt going to waste that efficiency with their cosnoles. You can see that by now they reported 37 watts for wii u, about a year and half they reported 33 watts so that means that some current games are getting a bit better squeezing the hardware, neverthless wii u should reach its peak between the 45 to 50 watts not just because iwata said some time ago that wii u could consume 45 watts as average, but also because you can reach this conclusion by talking into accoun the 85% or maybe 90% power5 efficiency and resting the power consumed by the usb and sd ports

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The Wii U is Nintendo's best made console.

Wii U weaker than Wii confirmed.

Not to surprise about Xbox one. Isn't running like 3 OS's at the same time or something. Really hope there wont be any overheating problems again

Pfft!  Galaki's toaster oven is more powerful than all of them combined!
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Stop supporting electronics, fuck paywalls!

Maybe doent look as much of a deal for must of us, but if wii u can consume between 45 to 50 watts(not accounting usb and sd ports) then that menas that there is still room of improvement, lets not forget that an e6760 has a performance of 16.5 gigaflops per watt, not sure how efficient is the wii u gpu but surely must be near that level

I thought this was common knowledge, no? Having low wattage chipsets prevents excessive heat, which in turns saves space and even more power from heat sinks and cooling. It has no bearing on performance (in a positive manner at any rate) but is a good space-saver and possibly saves you money as well (less cooling components).
Contrary to popular belief; it has nothing to do with lowering people's electric bills...
This is also why chipests shrink all the time in console revisions (and otherswise), smaller chipsets with more transistors per square saves space and cooling output demands and production material requirements, all the while keeping the same relative performance.

Well shit, on load my graphics card uses twice the power of a PS4 :p