If Nintendo launches a new console in 2016 (AMD Rumors) ...... will it be 8th or 9th gen

[Egann]

st0pnsw0p said:

Egann said:

It will be Gen 9.

Nintendo basically invented the concept of a mass-market home console with the NES, a mass-market handheld with the Gameboy, and has literally been in the video game business longer than Sony and Microsoft put together. Generations are really artificial terms, but I think Nintendo gets to define when generations begin and end. They've earned that right.

Magnavox invented consoles and Atari made the first truly popular console, why don't we go ask them how to define when generations begin and end? Surely they've earned the right. Atari's even been in the games business longer than pretty much anyone else that's still around.

Of course. Who better to enlighten us about current consoles than the makers of the Laserdisc?