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I was thinking like maybe the GameCube and the Wii as Wii should be labeled as 6th gen, the Wii U as 7th gen, and the Switch as Nintendo's 8th gen system. I think that makes the most sense, technologically speaking, since the 7th gen is typically defined by the transition to HD and the Wii U was Nintendo's first HD system, where the original Wii was just a small technological leap up from the GameCube.