What makes a console "next-gen"...?

[Mazty]

bananaking21 said:

Mazty said:

KHlover said:
I'll go with a simple definition: If it is the successor of a current gen system (not a new revision of the system!) it is a next-gen system. Yes, regardless of power.

So then a next-box containing a 1khz CPU and 1kb ram would be 8th gen?

"Keep all debate polite, reasonable and within the realms of logic."

thats in your OP, atleast ask reasonable questions within the realms of logic. your question isnt. i dont want to be rude but there are more than one user asking the same question in a way. 

That question is in the realms of logic, as in adhere to a hypothesis being logically criticised. 

Scientific logic isn't altered by probability. 

If you ignore hardware, then how can you even determine a successor? How is the 360 elite not the successor of the 360? 

 

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

You don't have to be stronger, smarter or superior over your forefathers in any conceivable way to be part of the newer generations.

/actual lock thread

Firstly biology should work in the manner that you are the improvement of your parents on a genetic level due to how it works. 

Secondly care to explain why you don't have to be an improvement?

Thridly as I stated in the OP, this thread has been mod approved, so please quit the "lock thread" talk. Its obvious that the Wii U has highlighted a discrepancy in what people believe defines what makes something next-gen, hence the reason it'd be good to talk about.