| Barkley said: Actually SG-1000 is classified as a 3rd-generation console same as NES, but you're right that there are 1st Generation devices that launched after the first 2nd Generation device did. Still without a defintion other than "+1" these generations where consoles are grouped together are meaningless, we may as well just have "Sony's 4th generation Console", "Microsofts 3rd Generation Console". If Sony started releasing successors every 7 years, and Nintendo every 4 years... well then we'd eventually be saying Sony's console released in 2041 belongs in the same group as Nintendo's console launched in 2029, which just doesn't make sense and at that point... why even group them together? Why are two consoles released by two different companies over a decade apart grouped together? |
That's the thing the whole definition of gen will be dropped in the coming gens because of how the market has changed, from how things are looking now MS is going down the route of pushing their ecosystem as their platform which could mean multiple Xbox models and GFW on PC to just the one PS platform while Nintendo with a hybrid would be more independent of the competition due to the portable market also being catered to.
Under these changes releases of new platforms would be even more independent of the competition due to each platform holder now catering mainly to a different branch of the industry. It'll simply be like how the majority of consumers see it in that rather than gens they'll simply see it as the new PS/Xbox/Nintendo platform as gens can no longer define them, it's a term that is becoming outdated.
