In certain ways the 3ds is more powerful, especially the new 3ds, in others the Wii is. Xenoblade looks close enough, most of the downgrades were obviously due to the 240p resolution. Also remember that the budgets of Wii games are bigger than 3ds games for the nature of being a home console alone. I would say shading and effects -> 3ds, polygon count and texture resolution -> wii (unless new 3ds gets a unique game), image quality -> 3ds (despite its lower resolution, the small screen makes up for it in terms of pixel density.)

Wrong thread son

Some games straight up rival/surpass the Wii, though unfortunately like every single Nintendo handheld ever (besides maybe the original Gameboy) there's gonna be a resolution cap that's not gonna make everything look as good as it can be..

Technically speaking, AFAIK the Wii's GPU is a bit more powerful while the 3DS' one is more modern and thus can do some newer, fancier effects and the like (like in RE Revelations)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsROHA7RUCQ

Keep in mind that's on the NN3DS... Not on the OG N3DS.

Wii still wins. But it still looks good on the Handheld.

Now you know what I think at least.

What everyone said.

3DS still a wonderful console to own.

Technically it is clear that Wii has more horsepower than (new) 3ds but we have to take two things to consider:

1. The Wii was almost never really used to its full performance, many devs didn't even consider to use the hardware close the maximum.

2. Engines and rendering tech evolved a lot in the past few years which benefits 3ds games as it is still an active platform.

The Wii has ugly graphics.
The 3DS has ugly graphics.

I hope Citra development keeps going as fast as in the past so that we can some day compare both games at the same resolution to really edge out the differences in this game.