I think the notion of generations has become less and less useful in the recent years. If you insist on using generations, Switch could probably be considered a 8.5th-gen console. It came too late to be purely 8th-gen, but it's too soon to be clearly 9th-gen either. It's also quite lacking in the processing power department, which speaks a bit against it being a 9th-gen console. However, Nintendo already had an 8th-gen console and since there's nothing forcing it to be considered an 8th-gen console, I would consider if a 9th-gen console for now if we had to pick one generation. If it turns out that Nintendo's next console could easily be considered a 9th-gen console, we should maybe revise this conclusion, but until then, 9th gen seems like a fairly safe bet.
But like I said: the concept of generations has become less and less useful. For Nintendo, this is definitely the 9th generation, but in the big picture, it's not so clear.
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