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Pemalite said:
Shiken said:

Which brings us back to the point that the curators of Wikipedia itself having the ability to be misinformed, just as anyone else.  The problem also lies with their logic.  If Switch is out another 3-4 years (which is VERY likely), then it would have competed against the PS5 and XSX for just as much time.  The bigger difference is that the WiiU was Nintendo's gen 8 console, so it would make more sense to group Switch within gen 9 under those conditions.  It just means Nintendo launched theirs 3 years before Sony or MS did.

So let me ask you this, would you consider the WiiU a gen 7 console for 1 year of its life, and a gen 8 console for 3.5 years of its life?  The concept is the same as it competed against the PS3 and 360 for that first year, but with the Switch's longer life cycle it would just be spread across a shorter range of time by comparison.

I mean if you really wanna break it up like that, I guess you could.  But it makes the concept of number generations even more convoluted than they already are.

I regard the WiiU as a 7th gen console due to it's technical underpinnings and game library.

I regard the Switch as an 8th gen console due to it's technical underpinnings and game library.

Whatever else is irrelevant to me.

DonFerrari said:

The best use of Wikipedia usually aren`t the article but the sources you can check.

Precisely. It's the evidence that is used to build the wikipedia articles.


Generations are references to time, therefore technical limitations have nothing to do with it.  The majority of the WiiU's life was set in the 8th generation, and it is likely that the majority of the Switch's will be in the 9th generation.  If the Switch is cut short for whatever reason, I will eat crow but as it stands now it will be the Switch that not only succeeds the WiiU (8th gen) but also Nintendo's device on the market with the PS5 and XSX (9th gen).

Now you can say the definition of a generation does not matter to you, but then one would wonder why you are in a discussion about generations to begin with.



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