22nd June 2010, 8:01 AM
There's no reason it couldn't do both though. The 3DS chip DOES do more than the Wii chip in many respects. Anything you say it wouldn't do "as well" could easily be overcome in software.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)