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derpysquirtle64 on 17 March 2020
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Mr Puggsly said:
derpysquirtle64 said:

AFAIK, Switch isn't really considered in any gen as we know. And even if someone puts it in a certain gen, it is always gen 8 (because it is the present gen and Switch competes with gen 8 consoles). But to be honest, IMO Switch is a console that probably kills off gen talk for good. 

I don't think Nintendo is really the arbiter of console gens. Especially when they've essentially given up on that. I say this as a Nintendo fan.

Since 2006 they started making consoles that felt a gen behind. This holiday their specs will feel almost two gens behind because Switch is handheld so it wasn't a massive boost over Wii U.

I don't feel Switch kills gen talk, Nintendo is just doing its own thing with moderately priced and portable specs at the moment.

Switch kills gen talk because it falls out of place. We can expect another revision midway through gen 9 which will lead to even more questions - is Switch 2 a gen 9 console or gen 10. And so on. The concept of gens worked because the console market overall was iterational. Every console manufacturer released new hardware in around the same time frame. This isn't the case anymore, so concept of gens seems pointless.