160rmf said:
Or maybe accept that generations are not about power and specs but the TIME that one of the big 3 release a successor. Being apart a few years of the next Sony/MS console release doesn't cancel Nintendo's beginning on a new gen. Different gens can coexist for a certain amount of time you know... |
No, generations are about time, and specs, and games of that gen.
What your talking about, is just a release number.
Switch is the 9th nintendo console, so its 9th gen.
Thats a release number.
a generation is a "whole" picture of consoles, that release around the same time, with the sameish specs, that play the sameish games.
(as it is with other "generations" when you use that word, applying to other things than consoles)
A console can also excist that isnt part of the "generation" narrative, because its too far apart from anything relateing to the word generation.
9th gen will be about SSDs, 3D audio, Hardware Raytraceing. The specs.
The time? well the Switch is likely to spend half or more of its life comepeteing against the PS4/Xb1.
Its not 9th gen.
Think back to 8bit games, and 16bit games, and the generations of those times.
Graphics were a bit part of it.
There will be a generation differnce, in such between the PS5/XSX vs Switch.
(switch will look and play, last gen, compaired to next gen) (Halo Infinate is not representative of next gen)
