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

[Shiken]

JRPGfan said:

Shiken said:
No it is not 8th gen. Graphical power =/= equal console generation.

On the same hand... how can a console much weaker than the PS4/XB1, with older tech, be a gen ahead?

Because graphical power =/= generational leap.

 

It plays games the previous gen could not and can handle AAA ports of current gen games on the go natively.  No other console can do this.

 

Call it a handheld, but the games are still current gen console caliber  making that a pointless reach of an argument.  The Switch has features that previous generations did not have and current generations can only emulate under specific conditions (remote play).  The feature set along with the games it offers makes it next gen.

 

With that in mind, the whole generation thing has been blurred since PS3 to PS4, since for 2 years most games were cross gen.  At this point, labeling generations in of itself has become pointless as well.