To Clear up confusion on what makes Next-Generation

[timmah]

Mazty said:

timmah said:

Mazty said:

JayWood2010 said:

Don't reply to mazty anymore.  He is going in circles now and has been repeating himself for days.  Many people has explained it to him but he comes back saying the same things.  So just ignore him, you're better off ignoring him.

Because ignoring links and calling a CEO butthurt is a legitmate argument.

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It really, really isn't. 

I didn't ignore your links, but you did ignore the facts, again...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console#Seventh_generation

Reality check - If you look at all the generations listed above, you'll notice they are grouped by release time period and by the group of consoles they compete against during a specific timeframe. there are wide power gaps between many of the systems within each gen. This is the simple reality, Wii was 7th gen, WiiU is the next step, therefore is 8th gen. If you define gens only as Massivvve leapz in powerz over everythingzzz!!!1! then well, you're outside the historical reality of the industry and can proceed to invent your own history and definition.

Reality check - wiki isn't a legitimate source. And to make it worse, that page isn't sourced where relevant.

Saying that the EA CEO is "butthurt" and DF are rooting against the Wii U is nothing more than a paranoid theory (word for word). In short, you haven't refuted what they have said, you've just denied it in the same way a creationist denies science. 

It certainly is a legit source and is the best representation of the consensus on the composition of video game generations.

http://segaretro.org/Generations_of_video_games - Generations matching above

http://seekingalpha.com/article/22075-seventh-generation-gaming-consoles-thinking-outside-the-box - Write up on the 7th gen, which includes Wii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(seventh_generation) - Wikipedia article on the 7th gen, includes Wii, has multiple sources

http://www.onlineeducation.net/videogame_timeline - Timeline of console gens, Wii in the 7th

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-video-game-consoles.html - Another write up, Wii in 7th gen

If Wii is considered 7th gen by the industry, WiiU is 8th, period. It is the successor to Nintendo's 7th gen console, and has a 25-35x power gain over Wii, gains in efficiency, gains in architecture, gains in instruction set, as well as other advances in gameplay vs its 7th gen predecessor (Wii).