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

[JRPGfan]

ArchangelMadzz said:

JRPGfan said:

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".

So lets take a look through History...

The NES is 3rd gen, sega master is 3rd gen. 

Sega's next console released only 3 years after the master and 2 years before the SNES. 

Basically sega released 2 consoles before nintendo released the NES's successor, YET it is still considered different generations. AND the genesis was discontinued at the same time as the NES even though it was in the same generation as the SNES. 

But because it was the successor to the master it's categorised as 4th gen. 

*Breathes out* 

Generation titles dont make any damn sense at all.

It used to be evident before, because every new gen, you could clearly see a drastic improvement from the last.

Its not like that anymore, we should stop useing "gens" monikers.