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Kasz216 on 03 June 2013
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Soleron said:

If we're defining generation by time, it's current gen

If we're defining generation by class of hardware power, it's last-gen

No one defines generation by how difficult it is to extract all the performance, like the article implies. If that were true, PS3 is part of the twenty-third generation.

That's not exactly what he's talking about though.

He's talking about how much performance you can get out of the hardware compaired to past hardware.

 

For example, if you took Xbox 360 Archtecture, PS3 architecture and Wii U Artchitecture with identaly statistics...

 

the Wii U architecture would far outperform the PS3, which would slightly outperform the 360. 


This is aso the exact same metric used by people talking about Sony and Microsoft's consoles being a generation ahead of PCs... even though both consoles are far inferior to PCs.

 

Talking about a consoles architecture instead of it's power is the new PR gimic this generation... and everyone is making use of it.