While I grew up long enough ago to appreciate the massive shift that was the transition to 3D, I still think games after that can be retro. In the interest of respecting younger members, I think we should cap retro as being 10 years ago. This would mean that early Wii/360/PS3 games would be considered retro, and by the time 2020/21 rolls around, and the new generation starts, as the PS5/XB2 release, the entirety of the Wii library (minus some Just Dance games) will be turning 10. This would mean that kids that grew up with the Wii but moved on to the PS3/360, then the PS4/XBO/Switch, and then the PS5/XB2, will be able to reminisce here about their childhood. Then as the 2020s roll on and the PS3/360 library ages into a decade old, by that time the PS5/XB2 will be making games from that era look retro.
Whatever we do, it can't be based on being before one's birth, as many of us have been in gaming since the beginning, and it can't be based on a fixed generation, or this will become an old men's club pretty quickly. Not to mention, none of this takes portables into account, and I don't know about you, but literally everything on the original DS looks ancient now, and that was 7th gen. Would be pretty dumb if we couldn't mention DS games.
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