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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