The Nintendo Switch is generation...

[DonFerrari]

Conina said:

DonFerrari said:

And that is why they are specialists and us mere users =p

So how many generations must we add on the Handhelds due to Game Boys versions that older GBs couldn't play some games from newer, DS1 and N3DS?

Game&Watch -1

GB -2

Virtual Boy -3

GBC - 4

GBA - 5

DS - 6

DSi - 7

3DS - 8

N3DS - 9

Switch - 10

Is that how you would classify gen for Nintendo Handhelds?

Plus it seems like you just ignored the part of Virtua Boy and WiiU being killed of prematurely and being replaced, plus the HW inside Switch being in line with what we have in gen 8 but won't be for gen 9.

Virtual boy didn't have any mainstream games, all its games were focused on a special gimmick/feature... it is similar to EyeToy, PS Move, Kinect and PSVR, which all are additions to the "normal" games. It also wasn't very mobile/portable so I'm irritated that you count it to the handheld generations.

Over 95% of the DSi game library also ran on the DS, over 95% of the new3DS library also ran on the 3DS.

0% of the WiiU or 3DS games run on the Switch. 0% of the Switch games run on the 3DS/n3DS or WiiU.

Do you really want to claim that these situations are the same?

 

Sorry but Virtual Boy was a standalone console, not a peripheric. And you calling it gimmick/feature doesn't change that. Or we could say all NES games focused on a special gimmick that was the controler so it wasn't a console as well.

Plus the games that run in Virtual Boy didn't run in GB and vice-versa.

The fact you get irritated or that it's portability was limited means nothing. If you want to go arbitrarily like this then people can also say that Switch battery is so bad that it can't count as a mobile device as well.

Still there were games made exclusively to them. You wanted to go the nitpick route so don't try and put caveats in all to try and make your point stand.

No one is claiming anything is the same. You were the one starting the silliness to count or discount it. Just deal with the fact that if WiiU wasn't a failure there wouldn't be a fast release of switch and it would be a proper gen 9 device instead of a replacement even if much more successful.