| A_C_E said: 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. |
You don't know what "rebrand" means if you're willing to use it so liberally ...
FYI the Master System belongs in the 3rd generation. The Master System is not at all an upgrade like the PS4 Pro, it's an ENTIRELY new system! (Even the library shows it.)
The name does not matter, what matters is what software the hardware can run to differentiate platforms. Sony could name the "PS2" as "PS1.1" and nobody would bat an eye whether or not it's their next gen console ...
There, I've disproven your predisposition that the Master System is just an "upgrade" when Sega goes to great lengths to make specific games for the new platform and the hardware is also different too ...
@Bold There's also no defined lengths either in a generation when we take a look at 7th gen. Highly unlikely that Sony and Microsoft are thinking of a new generation when their content with doing mid gen upgrades. Generations are also industry defined so Nintendo releasing a new system does not signal that the entire industry is shifting their software output for new hardware cycle ...
