ThatDreamcastTho said:
Mnementh said:
I'm kinda torn about this. Not about the question as it is, but about the generation thing at all. On the one hand, I see the usefulness to group things in the same category. On the other hand it is only working because most of the time the manufacturers decided to release their platforms not to far removed from each other.
But there are already examples that stretch the definitions of gens. Look, the Dreamcast and Xbox weren't sold at the same time (Dreamcast was killed 2001, end of 2001 released the Xbox). Still they both are counted towards the PS2-gen. In reality though Dreamcast and Xbox never competed against each other.
Depending on the overlap it makes sense to me, to compare the Switch to both, the PS4 and Xbox One, but also to PS5 and Scarlett. At least if Nintendo does not release Switch 2 a year after PS5 drops.
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Wrong. Dreamcast still had new retail games coming out in 2002. And many of the Xbox games after that were ports or cancelled releases of Dreamcast games.
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Not wrong actually. The Dreamcast has a Worldwide Discontinued date of March 31, 2001. That's over 7 months before the Xbox launched in November later that year. In fact, the announcement was made by Sega on January 31, 2001. Any games made for the Dreamcast after the official discontinuation date are irrelevant to the fact that it's manufacturer had long since acknowledged that it had already withdrawn from the console market. Therefore, it's not inaccurate to say that the Dreamcast never actually competed in the same marketplace with the Xbox.
