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

[Mazty]

Metallicube said:

BasilZero said:
If it is a successor to a system from the previous or ongoing generation

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Just adding a poll to this thread and thought about a major logical flaw with that thinking.

The xbox wouldn't be any gen as it's not a successor. If you simply state "it has to

KylieDog said:
Significant jump in power/graphics.

Nothing else matters. Certainly not a control method, or we'd be on the 100th or so gen by now.

Yeap. That's what I go with. It'd make the Wii part of the 6th gen and Wii U part of the 7th, but I find it hard to justify why it should be any other way. 

 be a successor" then that makes it impossible for new consoles to enter the market.