| Barkley said: 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. |
The analogy is fine because you're arguing about the US President like he's the only politician in the world the are many Presidents of different countries, the comapnies in this case are the countries and their leading politician is the platform so yes the analogy is perfectly fine.
What the hell are you on about PS5? It would be a 9th gen platform like Switch as PS5 is the successor to PS4 this part of your post isn't coherant, generation is not industry wide as many have tricked themselves into believing it's individual for the platform, Switch is a 9th gen platform so will PS5. Even your argument about 6th, 7th blah blah contradicts you as these were triggered by one platform releasing first forcing a reaction much like I mentioned earliar also note how you skipped previous generations to try and help your argument.
No shit a generation is a group of consoles now here's news for you they don't all need to release in synch, if Nintendo released a successor in 2020 as unlikely as that what if argument you're trying to push is yes it would be a 10 gen platform after all Megadrive did just that.
