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Wyrdness on 13 May 2017
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Zekkyou said:
Wyrdness said:

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.

If Sony, MS, and Nintendo all released new consoles in 2021 (highly unlikely, but this is just a hypothetical), would you consider them all 10th gen, or the Switch 2 10th and the PS5/X2 9th? If the former, then that would imply syncing is at least somewhat relevant to what generation you're in. If the latter, then generations being groups starts to break down (and dissolves into absurdity if you take it a step further).

I should note i do consider the Switch to be a 9th gen system, but i'm struggling to follow where you draw the line for generations. It doesn't really matter (i don't think the idea of generations is particularly useful anymore), but i'm curious nonetheless.

That question is answered already, if they all released a new platform at the same time they wouldn't be the same gen because Switch 2 would be 10th gen, gens in how you and others are arguing in how they are defined were already absurd to begin with, they were never uniform to begin with it just appeared that way because companies were reacting to their competitor's moves.

What you're seeing now is nothing new it's been happening since gaming's early days, traditional gens aren't dying out the industry has just come back round full circle. What further adds to this is that even if you were to argue PS4 and X1 and we went from that angle, Switch is still a new platform for the portable market as well succeeding another gen 8 platform and all of a sudden the PS4/X1 arguments become null and void because in the so called traditional sense of gens Switch follows that notion in the portable market hence why I look at it as what the platform is suceeding.