JRPGfan on 13 August 2018
| Shadow1980 said: Yes. It's main competition is the PS4 & XBO. By time the PS5 & Xbox 4 are released, the Switch will be about 3 years + 8 months old, and that's assuming they come out in Nov. 2020. By that point it will likely be past its own peak. It stands a very good chance of being replaced by Nov. 2022, when the PS5 & Xbox 4 will be maybe a year or two old. The Switch will have spent its prime years competing directly with the PS4 & XBO, and not with any Gen 9 system. It's replacement will be competing directly with the next-gen PS & Xbox. Generations have typically been defined largely in terms of primary competition, and in that regard the Switch is clearly Gen 8. Also, the NPD considers it current-gen. That's good enough for me. As for Nintendo themselves, they don't consider it "next-gen," and in fact have made no claims at all about what generation it is. |
This.
I dont get why its even a argument what generation it belongs to, its 8th gen.
