Just a message for the many that seem unable to figure something so simple:
Had the dreamcast released as it did and no other console released for a long time after it, would it be 5th gen? HELL NO. Only one player needs to make a move to start a new gen. If no one follows, it's a gen with no competition but a new gen regardless. In the same example, if new consoles only released 3-6 years after the dreamcast, they would be 7th gen, with every company excep sega skipping the 6th gen.
The NX is either a 9th gen home console or handheld. If it's a home console and sony/ms/? don't release new consoles before late 2019 (hint, they wont do this, new xbox/ps probably around 2017 and 2018), that means they skipped the 9th gen. And for the ones who wrongly mention the minimum 3 year gap between ps4/x1 and wii u's successor, that's 4 years after wii u AND competition that soon followed. No console that started a gen remained more than like 2 years without a competitor releasing. If the first new console after a new gen releases only comes 3+ years later, it's already a new gen.
