PS4 NEO, 9th gen or not?

[Shiken]

Hiku said:

Shiken said:

NX will be the onky 9th gen.  Overall power has nothing to do with the gen cycle.

I don't know if I'd call NX 9th gen. It's a new Nintendo console generation though. But I would rather say it's the 7th Nintendo generation of consoles properly joining the collective generation 8 a few years late. Because it's like they didn't properly join generation 8 with WiiU, with the majority of gen 8 games ignoring the system. And now with the NX, they will probably get the majority of the 8th gen games.
So to me what defines a generation is what games a console gets, and when the majority of developers move on to a new generation. If 90%+ of the games a system gets belongs to generation 8, then its more of an 8th gen system. The NX is not likely going to make developers jump to developing games primarily for a new generation. When that happens, that's when Generation 9 kicks off imo.
If Nintendo want to make games for a new generation on their own and no one else follows suit, then what defines those games, or their console as generation 9?

The generation of hardware has nothing to do with overall power.  If they hire more third parties to make more NX exclusive titles that cater to all audiences on top of their first party line up, it really does not matter what shows up on the other two consoles.

 

The generation is defined by a step up in hardware with new features and games not available on the system previous.  The NX regardless of specs is 9th gen, period.

 

The PS4 NEO however will offer nothing over the standard PS4 aside from a slight performance boost to games and maybe 4K.  The NEO is 8th gen hardware as it is essentially the same as the regular PS4.