The NX: 8th Gen or 9th Gen?

[Aeolus451]

Hiku said:

Aeolus451 said:

It's not really up to debate. Nintendo has been releasing their home consoles a bit early compared to sony or ms but they follow a pattern or time table. Only way for that to play out like that is for Nintendo to start releasing console very early or console gens as a whole get shorter. .5 consoles are just rumors at this point (Phil has already said they're not doing that) and nintendo hasn't made any annoucements about NX's launch window (it could release this year or next year) or even what it is. People can believe whatever rumors they want but I rather trust that a lot of companies stick to what's proven to work or to tradition itself with alot of things. Nintendo is more stubborn in that sense. Sony is not in a position to gamble with products not turning a decent profit or with products that are making money (VR by itself is a big gamble). MS is the most likely to try and change things or do something different with the console gens/consoles but they already denied that they're doing anything related to upgradeable consoles. People love to jump to conclusions with the rumors. 

It is up for debate because the generational term is a collective term for all consoles and not just Nintendo's. This is a new Nintendo console generation. Nintendo's 7th. But what defines whether it falls into the 8th collective generation or the 9th? WiiU never properly joined the 8th generation, as the majority of the 8th gen games ignored the system. When NX comes out, it will now likely get most of the 8th gen games. But developers are not going to move on to produce games primarily for a new generation of games when NX comes out. And if 90%+ of NX's new games are generation 8 games, then it's more of an 8th gen console.

So I would rather say it's Nintendo's 7th generation console, properly entering the collective 8th generation.

I was talking about about console gen as a whole.

@ the bolded part, it's simple. Wii is 7th gen and the wii u is 8th gen because it released after wii as a entirely different console. Devs supporting it with 3rd party games doesn't factor into this. What games from this gen get ported to the nx doesn't matter. The PS4 and PS3 have some the same games at the end of 7th gen but does that mean the PS4 is a 7th gen console? No. How does BC work with the xbox one? Is the xbox one 7th gen because it's BC with some of the xbox 360's games? No. 

I think people like "console gens" to be convoluted as possible.