danasider said:
This. I never get why people don't understand what the word generation means. It's a time period. Wii/PS3/X360 all were sold during the same time period. Switch/PS4/X1 were sold in the same time period. If we want to talk about technology, well, then that means all consoles are several generations old, because PC is generations ahead. But that's not how we should be talking about generations when it comes to tech. We actually don't because we refer to Switch/PS4/X1 as current gen. There's context and if technology is part of it, it's only relative to the brand. Wii was a more powerful Gamecube, and WiiU was a more powerful Wii. There are still generations of consoles here despite Wii not being technologically competitive with PS3/X360. Switch is a new generation of Nintendo's tech and it sells at the same time as PS4/X1. So it's current gen. Simple. |
I mostly agree with you, except Wii U/PS4/XB1 were sold in the same time period. They all launched in the 2012-2013 time period. Switch launched several years afterward, so that makes it next generation.
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