Why Sonys Play Station is the standard for home consoles since 1994 ?

[DonFerrari]

JWeinCom said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

If I'm hearing you right, it sounds like you never really believed in console generations to begin with.  Perhaps that is the disagreement?

I tend to think generations are more than a categorization.  They actually help describe sales behavior.  The Genesis launched in the US around the height of the NES's popularity.  It didn't affect NES sales at all.  But the Genesis had a huge impact on SNES sales.  The concept of generations is what explains this phenomenon.  

It depends what you mean by believed in.

I think it is (or at least was) a useful tool for categorizing things.  The way that at least Nintendo is doing business right now, I don't think it's useful anymore, at least in regards to their products.

What is the purpose of debating whether the Switch is a 9th or 8th generation system?  How does this improve our understanding of the market?  Does it help us to make predictions?

At most it would change a total sale in a generation. But agree with you that doesn't change how anything would happen from now to the future, as it also doesn't change anything if we agree it to be more table or more portable within its hybrid form.