ps4tw said:
Nintentacle said:
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
I meant games developed for Wii U originally.
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If thats how your going play it then how do you figure the gen of a multiplat like black ops as the PS3, xbox and wii u got the same thing? What gen something is is totally to do with the tech. Anything else is just guess work. Im happy to say that so far there hasnt been a single 8th gen game on the wii u, but thatll change when they bring out mario karts. Mario 3d just looks like a standard run around platformer from this gen.
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So 8th gen is a standard arbitrarily determined by you. Good to know.
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Tech is quantifiable, whereas yours ain't and is just guess work by you to big up old tech. There was an epic thread on eurogamer where it was clearly spelt out what a next gen console is - a game console that can play next gen games.
If you just say "its the next one so its next gen" then why isn't my microwave a next gen console? Your argument cant hold up to even the most basic scrutiny.
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Because your Microwave isn't a game console.
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Noooo waaayy, really?
Why isn't it? Thats what im saying, how you say it isnt a console will show you that theres more to a console than "it was released as the next one".
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No, there isn't. If it's a console released during the "eighth generation" of video game development, it is an eighth generation video game console. If there was some microwave out there that had the ability to play video games, it would be an eighth generation console as well.
That's all the term "next generation" means. It's released during the next generation. If you want to create a classification based on power, by all means, do so. However, the term next gen simply refers to when a console was released. Generation is simply a term describing time.
Saying that the Wii U isn't eighth gen because it isn't as powerful is like refusing to acknowledge a person as part of a certain generation simply because they're not as strong as the average person born alongside them.
