Poll - Is Switch a 9th gen console?

[JRPGfan]

Shiken said:

JRPGfan said:

*facepalm*

The fact that you argue like this.
Playing devils advocate to yourself, with easily answeared questions by yourself, ignore all others (posted by other people).
And then conclude, your deduction must be right.... so its 9th gen.

You could just as well have said "it is, because I say so", its just as meaningfull.

You going to "the scientific methode", and useing it like this.
Uhuh, sure.


Instead of that foolery... how about answearing this (pemalite's raised point):

Generations are defined by the technology and capabilities/funktions they have.

9th gen will be about SSDs, hardware Raytraceing, 3D raytraced binaural sound ect.

Does the Switch do that?
Does it have more in common (from a technology stand point) with 8th gen?

*edit:
also power does need a mention, generations need to be somewhat close to one another (for consoles to belong to same generation).
PS5 is like ~30 times more powerfull than the Switch, and the Xbox Series X even more so.

What other generation, had 2 differnt consoles, belong to the same generation, were there was like a 30 times differnce in power between them?

Gen 7 was a pretty big gap, seeing how the Wii was just a GameCube with motion controls.  It also could not do HD, which was what you would consider the staple of that generation.

So are you trying to claim that the Wii is actually Gen 6, despite not even being present within that respective generation?

No the Wii was gen 7 due to motion control technology and the Switch is gen 9 due to hybrid functionality.  They have their own thing that sets them apart from the previous gen, and does not necessarily have to conform to your own preference in technological advancements.

Wii launched in 2006, same as the PS3, and the XB went a year before 2005.
Supposedly it had a GPU that was ~12 Gflops , compaired to the PS3's 218, and the Xbox360's 240.
So it was slower by a factor of 18 to 20 times the other consoles.

Did this show? well you could aruge that alot of multiplats (games of that gen) never made its way to the Wii.
Was there a graphical differnce between overall games of the generation between the consoles? ei. graphics.
Yes there was.

Did games play differntly?
Yes, but that was mostly down to the Wii motes (by design nintendo went to haveing theirs play differntly).
However yes, there were alot of games that just couldnt run on the wii.

If today you go lookup compairsion videos by Wii vs PS3/Xb360, do you know what you find?

Wii U vs PS3/XB360 videos.

Ei. you couldnt really compaire the wii to the ps3/xb360.

Wii was basically like the switch, a half gen type jump, not a full one.
It shows in the power of the device and the games. The fact that Wii U came so late, but got ports of PS3/Xb360 games, so you can actually start compaireing the games running on a nintendo device, also speak towards this fact.

Does that answear that question?

Nintendo basically dont fit the generations tagline anymore.
They dont care about competeing with technology or specs, or even release cycles.
Nintendo are their own generations, no longer belonging to the overall generation picture.


The differnce in performance, between the Switch and PS5/XSX, is actually worse than the Wii vs PS3/XB360.
That surprised me abit.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 02 August 2020