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>It cost $4.49 for a 1KB 120ns CMOS LP SRAM chip in 1986. Source is JDR Microdevices catalogue, Byte Magazine, Volume 11 September 1986. I don't know how much 65C02 would have cost back then, but M68000 was only $15 in a bulk even back in 1984, and 65C02 would've been a lot cheaper. Not that C64 needed it to run a Wolfenstein 3D clone anyway.
So like I said, would have cost a LOT more to add more CPU power than some SRAM, so trying to compare a mapper to needing more CPU power to run the actual Wolfenstein port you mentioned, not some shitty clone, would have cost a lot more.

>Elite needed a lot more memory to store its procedurally generated content.
Only because it needed to store it as tiles since the NES's PPU had no feature to draw lines, otherwise it could have just drawn the lines directly without storing them.

>That's just revisionism
And grossly exaggerating the cost of chips is not? If you think it wasn't due to ROM prices dropping rapidly back then, which others have also pointed out, you are delusional. It was the same reason the 64DD was dropped, of which there is no real way to duplicate it's disks. People could pirate carts too if they wanted, the FDS wasn't dropped because of piracy.

>It does, but fewer limitations than the NES.
That's subjective

>Nope, 1983 Famicom had extremely low quality components compared to the 1985 US revision.
You mean like how many C64s had cheap RAM that tended to break? You know damn well you was grasping at straws for that one.

Are you SERIOUSLY trying to have a console war between the C64 and the NES? And I thought the "Would SEGA have survived if..." threads were bad.

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