Gamerace on 18 March 2008
It'll be considered 6th, unless it continues right on until the 8th starts, then that'll confuse things. But as stated above it's common for the dominate console to continue to sell strongly into the next generation.
The only real exception so far is the Atari 2600 as that outlasted the 'next' gen consoles like Intellivision and the later Colecovision. But in those days the industry hadn't settled into the current 5 year turnover, systems just came and went whenever.
