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160rmf said:
JRPGfan said:

Ofc they do, if they release their consoles near another console, with sameish specs/games, those 2 consoles would belong to the same generation.

If nintendo was the only console maker in the world, there would be NO generations at all.
There would only be nintendo console number x,y,z.

Geneartions are about 2 or more, consoles that are sameish, and release sameishly = both belong to the same gen, when talking about them.

This is also how generations (the word) is used, when talking about other things where the word is used.
You sound more confused than I do.

Did you actually bothered to look for the definition? Clearly not.

When you search for the meaning of generation the first thing you found is a picture of a elder woman, their daughter (probably around their 30s ) and her granddaughter ( around 10 years old). The description of the picture is " 3 generations on the same picture"

Generations are not the about the characteristics of the elements grouped within but only about the time of replacement.

For example a boy with 14 years old living in a small traditional farm with absolutely no contact with the urban life and no desire to know about it further and a girl with the same age living in a big city will share the same characteristics? So according to you they don't belong to the same generation

Just because many of you use the wrong term doesn't make it right

Not when you use the word to talk about human offspring, as birthed in order.
Grandparents -> mother -> child.

However if you talk about it in reguards to say a generation of kids (x,y,z, milleniums ect):
(this is the one most like our consoles)

Generation Z:

"The demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years. Most members of Generation Z have used digital technology since a young age and are comfortable with the Internet and social media, but are not necessarily digitally literate. Most members of Generation Z are the children of Generation X[1] and sometimes millennials.[2]


Do you see?
They talk about time, they talk about what sets them apart from older gens (they grew up with internet, social media, ect).

Its the same with consoles.

This would be like time, specific technologies used this gen in games, games shared library for a gen between devices.



Last edited by JRPGfan - on 05 August 2020