Try no SNES ever. The mainstream perspective on new products is, was, and always will be "why should I upgrade when nothing I care about has changed?". To the mainstream gamer, graphics have never been a dominating value; most people have to leave the mainstream and become interested in the products themselves instead of just the experience they provide to care about things like that.
It doesn't matter to a mainstream gamer how deep or refined a game is beneath the surface; what counts is if they can get into the experience right away and start enjoying themselves without delay. Instant gratification, if you will; depth and refinement are just there to make the experience last longer, as secondary values. And the experience has to be something genuinely new (not just an upgrade to a past experience) for the mainstream gamer to really stand a chance of being drawn in in the first place.
Sky Render - Sanity is for the weak.
