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JRPGfan on 09 May 2019
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Replicant said:
DonFerrari said:

Best way to group a gen is by the games played. If most of the multiplat games Switch plays are the ones on X1 and PS4 it instead of PS5 XB4 then it would make more sense to put it on gen 8.

That makes sense but in that case wouldn't Wii U be a 7th gen console as the majority of its multiplat games were available on PS3 and Xbox 360?

If Switch 2 launches around the same time as PS5 and XB4 (or 1-2 years after), I'd tend to agree with you. But if Switch gets an incremental upgrade like PS4 Pro whose sales numbers are counted together with the base model, I think it makes sense to consider Switch as part of 9th gen as it competes with the 9th gen consoles.

But really, my point was more so based around the silliness of arguing whether Switch is 8th/9th gen and handheld/home/hybrid. I don't see why it matters.

Edit: Yet, here I am arguing about that. Call it whatever you want. Forget I asked

^ Thats what I was saying.

I dont consider the Wii U to be on the same gen as the PS4 or XB1.
To me Wii U was actually like 7.5 or something.

Nintendo is "out of sync" with the others, following a half step behinde (and at later dates).
Switch is gen 8.... but both PS4 + XB1, have 8.5 gens (PS4pro + XB1X)