Do you think Nintendo will call Switch their 9th gen console?

[JRPGfan]

uran10 said:

JRPGfan said:
To me Power & compeititon define what generation a console belongs too.
That makes the Switch a 8th gen.

Except the actual definition of Generation would make it a 9th gen console as power and competition have absolutely nothing to do with which gen its in. Generation is, and will always be a time based thing. The successor is always in the next generation regardless of specs. IF GCN was 6th, wii is 7th, wii u is 8th and switch is 9th.  *(I dont see it that way, my understanding of generations is differnt than yours)

Generation:

1.

the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time:

2.

the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.

3.

a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc.

4.

a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time:

5.

a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.

6.

a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor (often used in combination): a new generation of anticancer drugs;

a third-generation phone.

7.

the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent.

Your saying 5), 7)

Im saying 6), 1), 3),4)

This happends every time someone makes a "what generation is this" thread.

Someone goes its the next in the line, and thats what it means.

Console generations has come to mean more than that.

And even then, you could argue what the actual meaning of generation is, when applied to console generations.

The Switch main competition is the PS4 & XB1, thus it belongs to the same generation of consoles as them.