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Wii Gets Price Cut To $199
After watching Microsoft and Sony drop the prices on the Xbox 360 and the PS3, Nintendo has decided to jump in with a price cut as well. Starting September 27th, the Wii will cost $199 in North America, a $50 drop from the previous price. Japan will be getting a slightly smaller price cut, but Europe seems to be left out of this change. Nintendo is hoping this reduction and the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Fit Plus in the coming months will boost slipping sales rates.
NES v. SMS - doing just a quick comparison via youtube, I'd say the NES had better sound but the SMS has better graphics ability - almost like a Genesis in quality (look at Sonic 1 on the SMS). Plus the SMS' CPU runs about twice as fast. The NES was a 1982 technology and SMS used more-advanced 1985 tech, which you can see on the screen.
And if you compared one of the "best" games on the SMS to one of the "best" games on the NES, you'd end-up tied. I'd suggest you compare SMB3 to Sonic before you decide. SMB3 uses the PCM channel on the NES to produce exceptional drum tracks and effects. The large color palette and advanced scrolling effects (split screen, scroll in both directions at-once) are unmatched by any other game on the NES.
I will fully admit that the SMS had a slight hardware lead, but very few games made use of the hardware edge (Phantasy Star and Sonic come to mind). In real terms, there was nothing exceptional about either system, except that one beat the other to market, and locked-in the game publishers.
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