What defines a gaming "generation" ?

[Bursche]

leo-j said:
@bursche

You do know before the playstation era there was barely a console war..

You call Genesis vs. SNES barely a console war? Just because you werent there, doesnt allow for the ignorance.

 

If somebody released a console tomorrow with Playstation 1 technology, they would be laughed at and it wouldnt even be considered part of the generation. Time is generation. A console must be in the relatively same time and relatively same technology for that time. I should have clarified that.