Quote Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
The Genesis was horribly behind the SNES in terms of sound and visual quality, actually. The SNES had what remains one of the best sound chips ever developed for a cartridge-based system, and in terms of graphics, it possessed a remarkable color palette, clean transparencies, unique rotating and scaling effects, and 3D capabilities thanks to the Super FX chips. The Genesis's specs were simply crude by comparison, and it was all Sega's marketing department could do to try to compensate by making up buzz words like "blast processing."
So now the aesthetics do matter?