Nintendo blames... itsself???

[A Black Falcon]

Well, if I could look at it objectively SMS would almost certainly win -- the better graphics and more features would ensure that. But nostalgia and remembering of how it was when you played it first is huge... and SM64 had a level of that that very few games have matched. SM64 redefined the genre, so hoping for the sequel to do it again is far too much. But its not unreasonable to ask for some significant improvements to the now somewhat stagnant 3d platformer genre... what do we do now that most everyone's tired of scavenger hunts?

And SM64 does have more environments to go to... 15 levels, every one very different. SMS has a nice theme, which I like, but its just not the same...