Mr Khan said:
The Wonder Swan is in a peculiar place. did it even launch in the West at all? And the Neo Geo Pocket Color really had no overlap with the GBA, as it was effectively dead by then, and was clearly meant as a competitor to the GBC.
I'll admit a lot of this is debatable, but chronologically it really looks like it's own little generation between 98 and 01. A short one, to be sure, but something distinct from what went on from 89 to 98 or 01 to 04 |
Well, the only reason NGPC "died" is that Aruze bought SNK and literally killed it. The system was actually selling better than expected and exceeding SNK's own targets. Plus NGP/C lines up perfectly with Dreamcast timeline wise (and indeed, did "connectivity" with it too). Dreamcast was also pretty much done by the end of 2000, but I wouldn't lump it in with N64/PS1 generationally.
I dunno, I tend to lump GBC in with the GBPocket/Pokemon fueled "2nd lifecycle" we saw for Game Boy. It's more like 89 to 94, then 95 to 00 for the original Game Boy, with GBC being just part of that. NGP/C in 98/99 and WS/C in 99/00 were really more the start of the next cycle, even if neither lasted that long...