ArchangelMadzz said:
Only if it's a handheld. If you release a successor to a console it's the next generation. That's what generations are defined by, successors. Babyboomers and millenials are alive at the same time so by your logic you can call them the same generation. It's just not how it works. |
also your wrong about "successor = new generation".
We re talking about hardware here, not humans.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/generation
1) the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time (this is the one we use for consoles)
2) the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.
3) a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc.
1) & 3) are what we apply to hardware consoles... always has been.
We look at "gens" as a whole, gen this had x,y,z in it.
Just because Switch is a new console, doesnt mean its a new gen.
If it spends most of its lifetime with others from the 8th gen, then it belongs to the 8th gen.
Why does this always happend everytime theres a new thread about "gens".
