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fatslob-:O said: Neither is the Master System but you don't see me arguing that it isn't a successor to the SG-1000 despite the clear differences in the library ... Your logic is nothing more than cognitive dissonance when it isn't even self consistent ... Why the sudden change you ask ? Weell maybe it's because the successor to PS4 and X1 aren't even on the horizon! Like I said before, it's not unprecedented to release a new platform in the same generation ... Because the Master System is an actual successor to the SG-1000 and not an upgrade as evidenced by it's library it serves an example for the future generation like the Switch ... |
Your original arguement was the Master System was part of the 4th gen despite it being a new console. You used this view to compare it to Nintendo's new console (Switch) when in fact the Master System wasn't a new console. The Master System was known as the MK-III (an upgrade to the SG-2000 in Japan) that was then rebranded as the Master System and launched world wide 3 months later after it launched as the MK-III in Japan, hence why it was still part of the 4th generation. It all adds up perfectly and unfortunately it completely undermines your arguement that the Switch and Master System situations are the same because the Switch is not a rebranding of a 3 month old console; the Switch is not releasing one year after the Wii U.
My logic has not changed at all so where is the cognitive dissonance taking place? First you say I'm offering up cognitive bias - which I'm clearly not considering the facts that I have presented and how I've stuck by them - now it's on to cognitive dissonance. Display to me where I have been inconsistant in my arguement, please.
The Switch hasn't even released yet. The average cycle is 5 years and we are already into the fourth year for PS4 and Xbox One, fifth year for the generation. The PS4 will still sell quite well after the PS5 releases since its sales replicate that of the PS2 which sold incredible amounts after the launch of the 7 generation. It's not unprecedented that Sony and MS will release successors in the next 3 years.
