Retroid Pocket 4 Pro
MediaTek Dimensity 1100 (4x Cortex-A78 @ 2.6 GHz, 4x A55) · ~$199
Hit or miss by title on Dimensity 1100 class hardware.
Tested by: Held Games, RetroResolve
Nintendo Wii (Nintendo, 2006) tested on 6 devices, cheapest first.
5 of 6 tested handhelds run Wii well enough to play, starting at $219.
2 of them hold full speed. Ratings come from 5 publishers who had the hardware; the comparison across all of them is ours.
Snapdragon 865 is the sweet spot: many Wii titles are playable.
Hit or miss by title on Dimensity 1100 class hardware.
Tested by: Held Games, RetroResolve
Snapdragon 865 is the sweet spot: many Wii titles are playable.
Tested by: Held Games
Snapdragon 865 is the sweet spot: many Wii titles are playable.
Tested by: Held Games
Runs upscaled without a meaningful performance cost.
Tested by: AndroidAyuda
Titles that struggled on older chips become fully playable on 8 Gen 2.
Tested by: Held Games, Held Games
Runs well, but the controller situation takes work.
Tested by: NerdBurglars, Retro Dodo, Held Games
Devices are ordered by price, not by score, because the useful question is usually the cheapest thing that clears the bar rather than the best thing available. “Playable” is where most people should stop reading upward: past that you are paying for headroom and upscaling, not for the game running.
Devices absent from this list have no published Wii testing found. That is a gap in the data, not a verdict on the hardware.
Every rating on this page traces to one of these. The compilation is ours; the measurements are theirs.