Aielyn on 05 February 2013
| Scisca said: Think about yourself in 30-40 years, when you're explaining to your grandson what a game console was ;) Now you give him all the consoles starting from the NES (let's just skip the older ones), Sega Master, SNES, Mega Drive, PSX, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast and so on up until Wii U, PS4 and X-box 8. You let the kid play every console for an hour and ask him to segregate the consoles into 6 generations. Where would the little kid put the Wii and the Wii U? Just basing on what he experienced, without any additional knowledge. I think he would put the Wii right next to the PS2, GCN, Dreamcast and X-box. Wii U is still in the air, but so far my bet is he would put it together with PS3 and X-box 360. This is the way I see this issue. |
Guys, Scisca has it right - the only way to define next-gen is to base the decision on what little kids would say.
Which I guess is about right. I mean, mentally, most of the people who decide "next-gen" in this way are probably about the equivalent. :P
