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Barkley on 12 May 2017
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Wyrdness said:
Barkley said:

So if Nintendo decided to release the successor to the Switch in 2021, Gen 10 would start? A "generation" refers to multiple systems over multiple companies so the, "It's a new console +1 gen" logic doesn't work if companies follow different release schedules. You'll get to a point where Nintendo release there "Gen 11" machine before Sony/MS have even released a "Gen 10" machine. 

The US Presidency is singular, a console generation is a group, bad analogy.

There's nothing to stop a company releasing there next-gen console every 3 years, next release = +1 is a completley flawed defintion for an industry-wide generation.

The Switch is Nintendo's next generation console, that's it.

A President or Prime Minister in the UKs case can be replace before the usual term is up so the analogy is fine it's happened here in Britain twice in the last decade it doesn't stop the replacement being classed as the next President or Prime Minister it's happened in South Korea this year. Show me where it is written in law that a company has to follow a schedule to be defined as a gen, the is none only what people have made up in their heads a gen is not an industry wide thing it never was it was an individual classification for platform released by companies.

What blows your argument out the water is the SMS and Megadrive which released 3 years from their predecessors and where all different gens, companies didn't follow schedules they released platforms strategically which forced other companies to react and people mistook that as some gentlement agreement that the is this schedule that needs to be stuck to.

So PS5 can be classified as a 10th generation machine? But no the analogy is not fine, a generation contains multiple systems, the 8th president is always referring to one individual, there can never be more then one president at a time. Meanwhile the 8th generation refers to multiple different entities all belonging to the same group.

I have no idea how you think, a president (individual), is a good analogy for Generation (group).

New Console = +1 is not a valid defintion for a shared generation, and like it or not 6th,7th,8th,9th generation, these are shared, not individual classifications, these refer to a group of systems. Generations are archaic and going the way of the dodo, but anyone insisting on using them must have a defintion for generation better than "it's another system though!"

What if Nintendo released a successor in 2019, would that be the start of 10th gen? You can't take one companies release schedule as a definitive line for a generation, as the generation covers the whole industry thus it needs to take the whole industry into account.

A console generation is a group of consoles, thus for it to be part of a generation it needs to be grouped with other devices, and a reason for being grouped with those devices as opposed to others.