There is No such thing as Gen Nine!!!!!

[LethalP]

So far, not much has happened that disrupts console generations at least compared to the past. In the 1982 Atari released the 5200, which was I guess a gen 3 console? In 1986 they released the 7800, their gen 4(??) console to compete with the NES and Master System? But wasn't the Snes and Genesis officially gen 4? Yes they were. Because gens have never had anything to do with what number console a single company releases. A gen is truly set in place when one company with enough marketing clout releases a console powerful enough to move on game development.

The Genesis released 2 years prior to the SNES, the PS1 2 years prior to the N64 and the PS2 12/18 months prior to it's competition. PS4 launched within a week of it's direct competition so if anything that confuses things less so. Anyone thinking WiiU kickstarted a generation or did anything that set the industry on fire is sadly mistaken. Was it gen 8? meh technically, not practically. It was more like a lone ranger like the Atari 5200.

The Switch is as gen 9 as the 3DS was gen 8 in 2011, and the DS was gen 7 in 2004. There should be nothing confusing about it. If you're wondering why it's getting AAA console quality releases, it just so happens that their previous home console is dead and the Switch just so happens to be able to run games of that standard. I still think Nintendo could release a home console in 2020 or later to compete with the PS5, and that home console will officially be gen 9. This is assuming it's powerful enough to get gen 9 ports.

So when people say gens don't exist anymore, they are just overthinking things. Since console releases nowadays are way less convoluted than they were in the 80's, yet no one said then 'console gens are dead'.