Is Nintendo switch (or NS) the start of Gen 9?

[DonFerrari]

Rankstrail said:

DonFerrari said:
Since Switch won't play WiiU games and WiiU won't play switch games it isn't a mid gen for me but nintendo getting early for new gen so gen 9, and it will be alone at it for quite a long time.

I completely agree with you: to US is generation 9, the compatibility of games is crucial.

Unless we go by Sony saying "the gen starts when we say it starts". The funny part is that when Sony said that a lot of people complained, but now even more are saying that unless PS5 is the competitor to Switch then it won't be 9th gen. VGC is a funny place.

If we were not to consider Switch as gen 9th because no other console would be competing with it, the most we could say is that either Nintendo had 2 gen 6 (GC+Wii), 2 gen 7 (Wii+WiiU) or 2 gen 8 (WiiU+Switch) consoles that aren't totally compatible... at least Wii have full retrocompatibility with GC and WiiU with Wii, and would be a similar case of putting DS and DSi in the same generation of HH or 3DS and N3DS, that had almost full compatibility besides selected titles.