Capcom: The Next Gen Doesn't Start With Wii U

[Mr Khan]

happydolphin said:

Viper1 said:

happydolphin said:

Flanneryaug said:
The Wii U is next gen because it is the first console in a new generation of consoles. Better graphics don't mean next gen.

What makes it a new generation, simply because its coming out after the Wii and is made by Nintendo? Then the 3DO was what gen 4?

I think you guys don't realize that the chronological definition fails without the idea of technological disparity injected into it.

The 3DO was a 5th generation console.

Based on what? It was released in 1993, the SNES was still in its prime. It's 5th gen because they have no idea where to put it because their Gens are defined by the success of the SNES and the Genesis (the two main platforms at the time). Not something I define a gen off of.

That's why the term is weak at best, it's full of loopholes like that one.

The Dreamcast came out well when the 5th-gen heavyweights were still in their prime (part of the console's problem), yet it is indisputably part of gen 6. 3DO had the same thing going for it. I mean, Saturn, PlayStation, and Jaguar followed only a year later, it was only Nintendo that was sluggish getting into the 5th generation (due in part to the PS fiasco, no doubt)