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CrazyGPU on 06 January 2015
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Dusk said:
CrazyGPU said:

Nintendo launched Wii U in end 2012. Sony and Microsoft launched 8 gen in end 2013. 

If Nintendo lauches a new console in 2016 and Sony and Microsoft launch Next Gen in 2020.

I mean one can consider a 2016 Nintendo console a very early 9 gen lauch or a second very late 8th gen console, right?

Would you consider the 2016 Nintendo console an 8th gen console or 9th?

edit: what if they lauch in 2016 and another in 2021 to counterpart a 2020 ps5 and xbox 2 lauch? Then most people would say that Nintendo lauched a 10th gen one year after the competition lauched the nineth? Weird.

Has nothing to do with other console manufacturers, has to do with it's successor. The Wii U is 8th gen so thenext will be9. 

If your parents have kids at 20 and you do as well, your kids are third generation from your parents. If your friends parents have kids at 45 and so do they, their children are third generation from their grand parents. It has nothing to do with length of time, it has to do with generations of the family.


I think of generations as peoples generations, if you lived the beatles era you probably are the sixties generation, if you listened to U2, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys you probably are from tye eighties generation. 

So every generation of consoles competed with each other. 

Now , just imagine this as a mind excercise. If Nintendo launches two consoles in the same time frame, let say 7 years in which Sony or Microsoft launches only one, then there is a problem.

By your point of view, Sonys 9th gen will be competing with nintendo 10th in 2021, just because their previous consoles were 8th and 9th respectivelly.

Now by my point of view, the majority of players lauched only one console in the time nintendo lauched 2, so I can be thinking in two ways.

that nintendo lauched 2 consoles competing with PS4 and XBOX One, then it will be two 8 gen consoles.

Or I can think that Sony and Microsoft Skiped a generation , and they didnt release 9th, but then, your thinking about parents will broke there, there will be a missing generation. 

Some might say that Nintendo isnt competing with sony and microsoft, that their market or games are different, but they are competing for the money. What matters for the company is the sales. 

So in the ridiculous case that nintendo lauches 2 consoles competing with PS4 and XBOX One in the same timeframe for the majority of the console lifespan, i would say that those consoles are 8 gen.