Conina said:
Oh, do we do comparisons to generations of people now? Cool! A1 and B1 are both born in 1870. A1 gets successors every 20 years, B1 every 35 years. So A2 is born in 1890, A3 in 1910, A4 in 1930, A5 in 1950, A6 in 1970, A7 in 1990 and A8 in 2010... so A8 is the 8th familial generation. But there are also social generations: A3 and B2 are both part of the "G. I. generation" with a similar cultural identity. Do you think it matters much to A8 and B5 (or to their friends, family, collegues...) that they are 3 familial generations apart? So of course the Switch is Nintendo's next generation. It ain't even compatible to the WiiU and 3DS software, there is a clear break. It is Nintendo's 7th "familial" generation (or the 9th generation if we go by the popular classification of GC+GBA as 6th gen, Wii+DS as 7th gen and WiiU+3DS as 8th gen). But similar to the shift from familial generations to social generations if you look at the big picture, the familial generations of consoles also lose importance. "Namen sind Schall und Rauch"... names are hollow words. It doesn't really matter if the Switch gets classified as 9th gen, 8th gen or 8.5 gen. Its classification won't help or hurt, the competition to it stays the same: PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Scorpio, iOS and Android. |
Whoa there. I ain't no fancy number scientist. All I know is that people in the 1870s were real dumb if they called their kids A1 and B1.
Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)
Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!