| Shiken said: Wii had the hardware power of a GC and it was 7th gen. Why would anyone be bothered by the fact that Switch is 9th gen? |
I doubt anyone is really bothered by anything.
For me, its not about how powerful or when a console was released. It all really comes down to the games.
No one really grades a platform on when it was released or even how powerful it was, they grade it on which games you can or were able to play on it.
This is why MS can (claim to) be gen neutral now because they are building an ecosystem that would make which box you have under your TV irrelevant. Be it an XB1, XSX, XSS or PC... you can play all the games on their platform either locally or streamed. They are basically trying to create forward and backward compatibility.
Granted, if game streaming doesn' takeoff as well or isn't in every region that you can buy an xbox then this plan of theirs falls flat, but in theory/principle, its their end game.
Sony, and I believe Nintendo, is firmly rooted in generations. And that is the only reason stuff like this still matters.
