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Volterra_90 on 26 January 2017
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DonFerrari said:
Volterra_90 said:

Yep, the only next gen games it would play are Switch exclusives, so? When the PS4/One sucessors come, regardless of their power, new 9th gen games will be released with those consoles, there's nothing mysterious about it XD. And 9th gen will be PS5/X2/Switch. I agree that Nintendo "jumped" the release date a few years though, and that's kinda new. But that's nothing so groundbreaking to not call the Switch a 9th gen console.

And I don't understand the last question. I mean, I can ask you why not release a next gen console with a similar power? And we can be going forever in circles XD.

The point is the HW in Switch already isn't capable of playing the 3rd party games of gen 8th so calling it a gen 9th is crazy because it won't be playing any of the games PS5 and X2 get. So you can't say Switch is 9th gen but can only play Nintendo games.

If you won't advance the technology and the power of the system them in the next gen HW you'll be doing the same thing you were doing in the current gen, if so, what would be the point of releasing a new gen? in consoles new gens have been unleashed because the technical ceiling was hit for the games able to be developed for that gen hw and SW sales have started decreasing. If improving the HW wasn't a necessity we could still be on NES.

Okay, I get your point now. But I disagree. Yep, you can say Switch is a 9th gen console and only plays exclusive games. I think there's no point in keep that particular viewpoint, since we have opposites POV regarding that and I don't think that will change XD.

About the second paragraph, I also disagree. Innovation and lacking power are not mutually exclusive. New ways of playing could be done on the Switch. I don't think that the leap of power between 7th/8th gen came with totally new ideas. Or, at least, ideas that couldn't be perfectly done the previous gen, from a gameplay perspective at least. Which is what matters to me. I'd gladly admit I'm mistaken if people can give me examples about it. I think Nintendo has probably the same impression. There's nothing they can't do with the Switch. It also provides portability, which is something I prefer over more power.