Jon-Erich on 21 April 2016
Hardware specs have very little to do with defining a gaming generation. After all, in the 4th and 5th generation, hardware specs were all over the place. For historical purposes, a generation is usually defined by an era. There's a reason why the original Game Boy is considered a 4th generation system despite being less powerful than the NES. This is because it marked the start of a new console (and handheld) lifecycle.
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