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

[JRPGfan]

Ka-pi96 said:

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. 

You've got the same issue with that example right there. Those are collective generations rather than gens within an individual family/product.

Looking at Millenials the wikipedia page says "Demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years."

Somebody born in the early 1980s could definitely have their own kid that's born in the mid 90s or early 00s, thus two people definitely of different generations within that family, but of the same collective generation. So then, why can consoles not be the same?

^ this, what Ka-pi said.

Wii U + Switch both belong to the 8th generation of consoles.