gen·er·a·tion / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[jen-uh-rey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
1. the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
2. the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.
3. a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc. Compare Beat Generation, Lost Generation.
4. a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time: Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars.
5. a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.
It can be said that Wii use last-gen technology in term of cpu and graphic card but it cannot be said that Wii is last-gen as gen basically refer to the time of the console release.
If a console of the technology of a sega saturn is release tml, it will still be a console of this gen
