Could Wuu be pulling 145watts!?For reference, I believe the Wii uses 24watts and the 360Slim uses ~100watts
notice how the front of the sticker is torn off leaving only 45 showing under what appears to be a wattage sticker.
- There are 4 USB ports, 2 in the back and 2 in the front under disc bay, so 4*5W = 20W
- There's a Blu-Ray-esque disc drive, so another 5W at least (only recently has samsung started to ship "low-power" Blu-Ray drives that are USB 2.0 powered)
- Full sized SDHC cards can peak at ~1.5W
- 5GHz Wifi 802.11n could go up to 18W for full-speed MIMO 3x3, but let's assume the typical 8-10W (unless Nintendo is using something else for the controller, in which case could be controller comm + 802.11g, possibly consuming higher than that)
- 5 device Bluetooth could be up to 0.5W
- Assuming slow and low-power internal flash memory, let's say another 1.5W for internal storage
Sum all that and we have 20+5+1.5+8+0.5+1.5 = 36.5W
[BNM's edit: that doesn't even factor in the following yet]
- CPU
- eDRAM (already confirmed)
- GPU
- RAM
- Sound DAC
And I'm even assuming the GPU or the GPU have north\south bridge functionality included, or you'll need an external bridge chip for that.
If it is indeed pushing 145 watts (as of right now), then it must pack some power as Nintendo is all about keeping the wattage low as the Wii is only plling about 20-24w during heavy usage.
The original PS3 was pulling about
209w @ release and is currently down to about 80w with the slim model.
A launch 360 was pulling about ~160w and is down to under 100w with the 360Slim.