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By the time the Switch was released, the Wii U was all but forgotten. Outside of BotW there was basically zero overlap between the two consoles. It makes no sense to consider them to be of the same generation.

Unless you want to shove the Switch into gen 8.5 or something because it released so much sooner than the PS5/XBS... but at that point the definition of a console generation would become entirely arbitrary (not that it isn't already anyways) and you may as well call PS5 a gen 9.1 console because it released two days after the XBS