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Wyrdness on 12 May 2017
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Shadow1980 said:

The Master System is simply the Western name for the Sega Mark III, which is simply an enhanced version of the SG-1000. The SMS was basically the Pro/Scorpio of its generation, though only Japan got the older versions of the hardware. The SG-1000/SMS platform started in 1983 in Japan, same as the NES.

The Dreamcast was considerably more powerful than the N64. Its GPU was upwards of 14 times as powerful, it had 6.5 times as much RAM as a base N64, and its CPU was over twice as fast. It was far closer to the PS2 than to the N64 in terms of power. And it launched only 15 months before the PS2 did in Japan. The N64 was a little late to the game in Japan (which used to get any given console much earlier than the West did), but the Dreamcast's power and release timing puts it square in the same generation as the PS2.

And again, if we use the "Switch is the Wii U's successor, and Wii U was Gen 8, so Switch is Gen 9" logic, it will start to get absurd fast. This right here is a very possible timeline we could be looking at:

The SG100 and SMS were separate platforms based on the same design and the first was more geared towards the likes of the prior Atari era platforms while the SMS took cues from the NES, it's not comparable to the Pro/Scorpio as even the controllers and library for both platforms were different, the SMS version 2 is more closer to the Pro/Scorpio situation.

DC proved that it's not about a synched released like you argued earliar even your very own graph does more to push this than your own stance if you want to argue power that's fine Switch is more powerful than both Wii U and 3DS in both docked and portable mode. If your argument is about Switch not being more powerful than a platform already out well your chart has already contradicted you as Wii was Xbox level power and you've classed that in the same gen as other successors.

No matter what anyone pushes here Switch is a Gen 9 platform simple as that as it's a successor to gen 8 platforms much in the same way the person who is elected after Trump will be the 46th President.