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Either 8.5 or 9th Gen, but both get the same gen moniker from me.

8.5 sounds the most right to me, as it mirrors the early 90's: Several new consoles where coming out some years after MegaDrive (aka Genesis in the US) and SNES (3DO, Philips CDi, possibly including Atari Jaguar) while others got Upgrades (Megadrive with MegaCD and 32X, NECs PC Engine with the SuperGraphX and the Turbo Duo). The consoles that came out back then where called Generation 4.5 in hindsight after the Saturn, PSOne and N64 got released since there was a clear gap between the gens in performance and the release dates of these consoles where pretty much right in the middle of those of the big players on the market.