Super NES or Sega Genesis?

[Leo_A]

SNES was just as much if not more to go for 3D, it just needed the FX to do it more smoothly as Hard Drivin and Star Trek were as good as it got on bare hardware, but throw the FX in there and then it was a different thing for many of the games, yet still some like Stunt Race dragged.

A: The stock Genesis hardware is a much more capable 3D console. Lots of games prove that out where as Mode 7 effects or straight sprite scaling, fake 3D, were the order of the day on the SuperNes if you wanted something resembling a playable game with the stock hardware.

B: North American got what, a half dozen Super FX games? The best one used it just to enhance its rotational capabilities and such, not for 3D. The others are junk, or often considered aged tech demos for the best of the lot (Although I still enjoy Stunt Race FX and Star Fox). It has about as much validity here as Virtua Racing does on the Genesis or the 32X add-on and its arcade perfect conversions of Afterburner II and Space Harrier and such.

SNES did get some very very admirable flight simulator(space combat) copies of Wing Commander and the Special Operations levels on two carts

It's not real 3D, they're scaling and rotating sprites for the space ships. Fine conversions that I've enjoyed and played to completion (The original on the real deal, and the expansion via EA Replay on my PSP), but I'm not criticizing its sprite scaling capabilities. I think games like Top Gear demonstrate that the SuperNes had the edge in this area (Although the Genesis is no slouch, either)

and yeah there is Pilotwings and Wings which counts

They're really not flight sims. Pilotwings is pure arcade action, despite gamers that never played a sim being fond of considering Pilotwings as a sim. And Wings 2 really doesn't have any sim elements of note despite the setting.