Yes, and I think XenoBlade Chronicles is the most processor intensive game on the Wii. The texture level might not be high, but to render all those blades of grass, all those polygons (in the mechonis), all thos unique character models.....that game blows my mind.

Doom for SNES was a 3D game, but nearly every texture was flat, 2D, and heavily pixilated. Take something like Star Fox 2, and there are a lot of true 3D polygons to render. Similar story for Super Mario RPG, while it's sprite based 3D, it's still the best looking 3D SNES game. I dunno if Doom uses more processing power, but in terms of graphical output it's nowhere near Star Fox 2 or Super Mario RPG.

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If you're going to argue Jett Rocket and Doom take up more processing power, but don't look as impressive....that's just a fools arguement. Can't punish Nintendo devs for getting more out of games, while asking less from the CPU. I have no way of measuring the CPU stress of a game, but I can say that Star Fox 2 doesn't emulate well on PSP. Either way, Nintendo's made the most graphical output out of any dev for their consoles (except maybe GCN with RE4, but it's a close call with Zelda)

Of course Doom's textures were flat and pixelated, its an SNES, it's not meant to be doing 3D at all, much less with actual textures. And Mario RPG wasn't 3D at all, it used pre-rendered sprites like the Donkey Kong Country games.

What looks "impressive" is down to a person's subjective perception. But in terms of pushing the technological limits of the system's chipset, Nintendo didn't make any games that incorporated the kind of effects the Conduit games use; effects that, on paper, shouldn't be possible on the hardware. 

I disagree, Star Fox 2 >> Doom in terms of processing power (I can play SNES Doom on my PSP, but no way can I play Starfox)

XenoBlade > The Conduit, when your draw distance is only a few feet, that really cuts down on the CPU power required. To render everything in XenoBlade to the level of detail shown, that's impressive.

Starfox 2 is an incomplete beta, so its likely not optimized as far as Doom, hence harder to emulate. As hugely impressive as Starfox 2 is, its still not textruing all its walls the way Doom is.

Conduit 1 & 2 do have some open areas, where they still manage to pull of normal mapping, depth of field, bloom, etc.

Starfox 2 was actually completed, just unreleased because Starfox 64 was releasing soon.

Star Fox 1 is still similar, unlike doom it has polygons, not flat sprites in a 3D space.

Conduit's open area's are nothing compared to XenoBlade.

For the Wii I'm still confortable to say Black Ops 1 and Modern Warfare 3
10 players online in multi
4 players in zombies
Many killstreaks at the same time
Mic support
Had everything the HD versions had, for the exception of air controllable killstreaks.

I seriously doubt Starfox 2 was finished considering the amount of bugs in it.

Also, Doom was a high PC game coming out 4 years after the SNES, that even the Saturn and PS1 couldn't run perfectly.The SNES running it was insane.

And Xenoblade's simplistic lighting and shading effects are nothing compared to Conduit/Jett Rocket. It's PS2-level in terms of effects, because its massive scale leaves no memory for complex graphics techniques.

Xenoblade water: (A bullshot, but only because the real res ones didn't show water up close)

Conduit water: (And not even it's best; for the life of me I couldn't find a pic of its dynamic fluid simulation)

The textures in Conduit look terrible, XenoBlade looks much much better.

Anyway, I disagree with you. No point arguing furthur.