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Replicant on 04 February 2020
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Nu-13 said:
Shadow1980 said:

It should be obvious from the language used in the press releases that they are comparing the Switch's LTD sales to the PS4 & XBO, and that the NPD therefore considers the Switch to belong to the same generation as the PS4 & XBO.

If that's the case, then we might as well get rid of numbered generations entirely, because there's no way you could split those three into three separate generations and have them make sense, unless you believe that Gen 2 is actually two separate gens, in which case you think either A) everybody's been getting it wrong on the numbers for the post-Crash generations, or B) you think the Pong machines era was either not a generation or was a "Gen Zero."

*heavy sigh*

No. Just... no. I mean, Switch the sole Gen 9 console, and Sony & MS skip Gen 9 and go straight to Gen 10? You started this whole off-topic argument, and this ends up being what you expect us to accept? Really? Really?

This is exactly why I consider NPD far more authoritative than the opinions of random forum-dwellers.

Why all that struggle? Generations aren't console wars. It doesn't affect anyone's ego. It merely classifies stuff according to their release period.

You don't know Shadow that well, do you?

He's not the console wars kinda guy. He's into sales analysis. That's why I think it's silly to imply that he has an agenda labelling the Switch 8th/9th gen.