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Wyrdness on 13 May 2017
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Barkley said:
Wyrdness said:

Good point although it can be seen as a 5th gen platform seeing as it's not succeeding any previous platform and was released to compete with 5th gen consoles in the long run of it's life same with Xbox, once a staple in the market their successors are seen as succeeding platforms from that gen making the successor Gen 6 or 7 in the Xbox's case. To give you an example on how the is no defined gen setting EA count the NES as Gen 1 and they're a big industry publisher.

I'm curious as to which generation you'd put a successor to the dreamcast, should one suddenly crawl it's way out of the ether, would you put that in the 7th generation with PS3/360?

A successor device is always that particular companies "next-generation" device, but that's not what 1st-8th generations refer to, those are generations of devices defined by there peers via a common time.

Correct me if I'm wrong but there has never been a case where a new console has launched and been placed in a previous generation. A brand-new 4th generation console has never launched after a 5th generation device has released or similair right? That's because generations are defined by time, it's impossible to release a console in a past generation.

DC successor would be an anomaly, although a successor to a Gen 6 platform due to inactivity of the company in the market I would see it as a re-establishment of the company in the market so class the platform alongside the Switch as a gen 9 platform. Such an anomaly wouldn't back anyone's stance here as the are 2 active gens and lets say they released a powerful platform and the PS4 and X1 lasted another 4 years but the new platform went on to compete well into the gen with the PS5 and X2 because of its performance people wouldn't know where to class it which is why these what if arguments can end up as fallacies.

The actually has, the predecessor to the Master System the SG-100 mk2 launched after the NES. Even Gen 1 and 2 is a mash up of such cases as well.