| DonFerrari said: What creativity is in not improving the processing power and caling a handheld a console? You don't even aknowledge that what you say Switch brings wasn't already present in most form on PSP or Vita. And how haven't Microsoft nd Sony didn't bring technological advancement? Well and if you need a new one exclusive tech for this gen would be VR, and if you consider X1 doesn't have it then Scorpio would be 9th gen as well. Wii is considered 7th gen because it was out at the same time period of X360 and PS3 and at least at first got a try on Multiplat. But some people also call Wii a 6,5 gen and WiiU 7th gen so Switch would be 7,5 to 8th gen so far. And Wii motion system was a technological leap even if not on the graphical side. And even there, a lot of games on PS3 and 360 were subHD even like 530p comparing to Wii 480p games... Now when PS5 comes out it will be 4k versus 720 on Switch on portable and 1080p on deck at most. Scorpio and PS4Pro is a step in the direction to 2 or 3 years cycle if we use these odds definition people try here to decide 9th gen started because Nintendo saw WiiU was a failure. But if we stop believing that 3DS won't be continued by another HH and that Switch will be the sucessor then Switch is more the 5th or 6th gen HH and not 9th gen console. |
What Switch brings is a new primary way of gaming on their system, not just a simple added on function that only 0.5% of the consumer base use. It's not just creativity that counts it's the implementation of creativity as well as implementation of technology to garner one's vision, whatever one's vision may be. Sony's PSVita function with the PS3/PS4 is the same idea as the Switch but it's the implementation of said technology that vastly separates the two. I'm not saying that creativity is the only reason why a new gen starts but it seems to be how your understanding of my view is. Im simply pointing out that creativity can replace power to a point that breathes new ways of gaming and can be sold as such, hence why Nintendo is releasing the Switch with a new primary way of playing their games. Hence why Nintendo is kicking off the 9th generation.
The Wii launched with 14 year old technology in its Wii Motion Sensor and was barely twice the power of GC, yeah, what a technical leap! The Wii U to Switch on the other hand will be a bigger power gap than GC to Wii seeing as how the rumoured specs put the Switch to being much more powerful than Wii U.
