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For me it’s pretty simple. Everyone accepts that Wii & DS belong to the seventh gen and WiiU & 3DS belong to the eighth gen, right? So Switch, as the next in line, belongs to the ninth gen, and the successor to Switch belongs to the tenth gen.

As for why the classification is important, well it’s not really. But it’s handy to have an agreed-upon way to group things, especially because we’re all in the business of talking about video games — past, present, and future.