Should NS and wiiU be both labeled as 8th generation?

[Wyrdness]

JRPGfan said:

Wyrdness said:

Does it really though Dreamcast was out with the PS1 and N64 for two years before the PS2 arrived and 3 years before GC and Xbox it's still classed in the gen with the latter and its participation in the latter gen was very short. It's clear NS will be around long into the PS5/X4 era as well.

NS is a 9th gen platform as a successor to an 8th gen platform that's what it comes down to.

all I can say is if thats how you see it, then gens dont matter at all.... just call it Nintendo's 9th console or whatever.
A generation only makes sense if you look at a group.
It clearly doesnt belong with the PS5/XB2.

Except if we go by your logic here Megadrive/Genesis would be in the same group as NES, Saturn and PS1 would be grouped with SNES, DC and N64 would be grouped by themselves and so on. I don't get the logic you're trying to push here because as being a successor to an 8th gen platform makes it 9th gen the's no real argument against that and the is nothing that says it's not to be grouped with PS5/XB4 because it'll will be here long after PS4/XB1.