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Goodnightmoon said:
Zod95 said:
captain carot said:
Wii U is 8th gen with (much) less power.

In my view, power is what defines generations. I assume that in yours it's all about time. In that case, maybe Zeebo (a console launched 4 years after X360, which is 7th gen) could be considered 8th gen.


It´s all about simple logic.

 3        4         5        6       7       8

Nes - Snes - N64 - GC - Wii - WiiU
                       Ps -  ps2 - ps3  -ps4
                                Xbx - 360 -one

It makes no sense to call WiiU a last gen console, as it made no sense to call Ps1 a 4th gen console just because was way less powerfull than N64.

That is not a logic but an example. A logic is made of rules, criterias (for example: time). If time is the criteria you're using, then let me know what do think to be Zeebo's generation (which you didn't yet).

You claim PS1 is way less powerful than N64 and yet I don't see any N64 game with better graphics than Gran Turismo 2. Could I make such claim about a WiiU game in comparison to the entire PS4 catalogue? I guess not. Moreover, PS1 reads 700MB CDs while N64 reads 8/16/32MB cartridges. Has the WiiU media formats with 20 times the capacity PS4's blu-ray?

PS1 is clearly from the same generation as N64. Power more or less the same, they shared the same multiplatform games, etc. I don't recall any game launched on Saturn and N64 that wasn't launched on PS1. But I do know a tremendous amount of games that are launched on XOne and PS4 and that aren't on WiiU. The few WiiU's multiplatform games are also on X360 and PS3. Were the PS1 multiplatform games also on Mega Drive and SNES?

See the difference yet? I do. Game developers do also. The entire industry does. Do you?



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M