| Shadow1980 said: With Nintendo being on 5-year cycles and Sony & MS on 7-8-year cycles, things are going to start looking rather goofy if people who call the Switch "9th-gen" are classifying things. Let's say the PS5 and Xbox 4 both come out in 2020-21 and the Switch's successor (assuming it does well enough to keep Nintendo making consoles) comes out in, say, late 2022. Will we already have a 10th-gen system coming out only a year or after Sony & MS's 9th-gen consoles? The Switch will be spending the best years of its life being nominal competition to the PS4 & XBO. Therefore, it should be considered part of the same generation as them. |
The only gen Sony has had that was 7 years was last gen. Personally, I'm surprised MS decided to not launch a console until Sony did, seeing as they were a year earlier. They seemed so unprepared for this gen. Anyway, I fully expect Sony to release the PS5 in 2019, making this gen 6 years. They're probably going to want to take advantage of AMD's new Ryzen CPU and a Vega GPU, which will be much cheaper in 2 years time. That's also just as long as it took for the Wii U to launch after the Wii and the Switch to launch after the 3DS (people seem to forget that the Switch is its successor, too.) If Nintendo continues to make HW, I don't see how launching just 2 years ahead of Sony and/or MS does not count them as being in the same gen. I think people are just trying to complicate something that's not very complicated.
