The NX: 8th Gen or 9th Gen?

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Shadow1980 said:

Ljink96 said:
Whoever votes 8th gen does NOT know how to count. Go back to school. It's a NEW NINTENDO CONSOLE. It's 9th. Wii U has been out for 4 years, it'll be 5-6 when NX comes out. Wii arrived in 2006, Wii U in 2012. It's about right. Most generations are 5-6 years. Unlike NEO, NX is confirmed to be a totally new concept so it's 9th, final answer.

Atari 2600→Atari 5200→Atari 7800. Atari 2600 = 2nd generation, so Atari 7800 = 4th generation confirmed! The 7800 competed directly with the SNES and Genesis.

Like I said, it's not as simple as an "NES = 3rd gen, ... Wii U = 8th gen, NX = 9th gen" progression. It has to be viewed in a greater context than "It was released 4 years after the Wii U."

The reason Atar 5200 is considered secnd generation because in the SO IMPORTANT US of A there was a gaming crash. So  Atari 5200 and Colecovsion were kind of forgotten about and they lumped them into gen two as it only lasted 2 years.

Gen 3 started with NES because this was post crash so a new era.

In all honestly Atari 5200 and Colecovision in my eyes should be gen 3 consoles but people lke to sweep the death of gaming under the carpet, and NES etc gen 4.