Kai_Mao said:
So...Smash 3DS is considered a 5th gen game? Then I guess vita counts as 5th gen as well. But I guess most don't care about that since the Vita is not selling well.
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i really don't know what handheld generation we are in simply because no one has ever tried to define one. If you ask some, like me, they'd say it started in 1989. But there were things like electronic football etc. well before then. It's sort of a grey area.
One thing I DO know is, history seperates handhelds from home consoles. Wikipedia makes the distinction. The companies who MAKE them make the distinction. Even Vgchartz does the same thing. You never saw Sega doing commercials where the Game Gear was going up against the SNES. It was always the Game Boy. That's because they knew, understandably, that handhelds sell to two distinctive consumers over all. Sure, there is some cross over but not to the point where people are going to choose between a PS4 and a 3DS.
I've been discussing gaming online since 1999. Back then, no one ever lumped the two together. Before that, companies didn't do it. No one ever did it. As a matter of fact, it's ONLY within internet forums these days where you see kids doing it and it's almost always, without fail, Nintendo die hards looking to skew numbers in their favor which is absured. Nintendo has never lost a handheld war and likely never will. There's no need to skew things on the home console side when you can just brag about that. Even with home consoles, they've won just as many generations as Sony has won (3) so... I don't get it.
