9th Gen starts on March 3

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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.

Then why have Lego Worlds, Steep, Project Sonic 2017, Yooka-Laylee and Dragon Quest XI all been confirmed for the Nintendo Switch? None of those games are on the PS3/XBOX360/Wii. Your argument makes little sense. The Wii didn't get a lot of third party games the PS3 & XBOX360 got either, but you still consider that part of the seventh generation.

The Nintendo Switch is an advancement in technology over its predecessor, not to mention that there are multiple ways a console can evolve outside of just more powerful hardware. Sony is actually doing the same thing they were doing last-gen when it comes to software, but with more powerful hardware. God of War 4 and Dreams seem to be doing radically different things compared to their predecessors, but that's about it. Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey will be completely different compared to their previous games, nobody can deny that. Games like Arms and 1-2 Switch weren't possible on the Wii U either. There's more difference between the Wii U/3DS and the Nintendo Switch than between the PS3 and PS4, so I don't really understand your complaint or logic at all.