killeryoshis said:
Zekkyou said:
The label certainly seems to have lost a lot of its value. MS are actively disregarding the concept, Sony currently seem undecided, portable gaming now includes an industry (mobile) with an entirely different set of generations, and the Switch looks set to spend a solid chunk of its life-span competing against 8th gen systems and their 'new but not a successor' upgrades. We can still call stuff gen [whatever], but the practical use for that label has diminished recently.
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What I am trying to say is that we have no concrete reason to get rid of generations yet. We have NO idea what Sony and Microsoft are doing in the next few years. There is only assumptions
If the PS5 releases next year or 2019 then the gap between the 1st console and the 2nd console is normal. Right now we have no clue what Sony is planning . Will they just PC their systems and make them upgradeable like PS4 Pro or just release a darn PS5? Is Microsoft even planning to stay in the console market?
So like I said until we have concrete evidence that all three companies are getting rid of generations than we can talk about the end of generations. Right now all this "end of generations" talk is just premature.
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I'm not arguing that we should discard the label, i just think it has currently lost some of its practical value. "Console generations" as a basic concept has always been flexible (some of the older ones had comically large ranges), but its usefulness as something other than a general categorising system has likewise varied. The term only relatively recently gained its current popularity, and that only really because of how close nit everyone was for a while (Sony, MS, and Nintendo were all within 1 year of each other for both the 7th and 8th home console generations).
