But the music?  The Mode 7 graphics?  The Super FX chip (ie: Starfox)?  Shoulder buttons?  Mario Paint?  The Super Gameboy?

I think you're right, too.

Wii U will cost $275.

Well, wireless signal plus battery aside. And dualshock 3 also has accellerometers (not sure about UPro... does that have any motion tech?)

Do we get a discount if we subscribe to Mii Verse Live?

Yes. I think the same as the 3DS with acellerometers and gyroscope.

Wow, the Wii was their most expensive console whilst also being the weakest (relative to the release date), we got screwed, lol.

N64/GC were quite cheap I guess. NES must have been quite a lot factoring in inflation.

I wouldn't call the Wii overpriced.  If you look at that timeline of Nintendo consoles, you can see the different things that were removed over the years (pack-in title, second controller) to maintain a $199 launch pricepoint.  The addition of everything associated with the motion controlls (Wii mote, nunchuk, and sensor), plus the WiFi included would necessitate the console to cost more than what the Gamecube cost at launch.  Imagine adding motion controlls at launch for Sony and Microsoft to the cost of their already higher priced consoles due to the more powerful hardware in their systems.   If Kinnect had been available for XBox 360 launch, it's launch price would have likely shot up from $399 to $499.  I shudder to think of what the price of a PS3 would have been at launch if Move had been incorporated from the start.

I had a Genesis, but only because someone offered it to me in college (1995) for $15.  Not to say that's what it's worth, but by then, the next gen systems were out and as I recall, he was more into gaming on his PC.  Anyways, for me, Super Nintendo had Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country, Civilization, Sim City, Final Fantasy 2 (IV), Final Fantasy 3 (VI), Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana.  I can't remember as many Genesis games that I couldn't get for SNES that I thought of as must haves.  I really liked playing Golden Axe in the arcades, so maybe that.  I never got into Sonic or Phantasy Star.  Otherwise, I don't remember much about Genesis beyond Sports games, which was pretty much what I used it for.

In japan, there were just 2 titles at the launch of the n64, in late 1996. It launched in spring 1997 elsewhere, with more games