RolStoppable said:
Of course it will be tenth generation in the established system. It's the successor to the ninth-gen Switch which was the successor to the eighth-gen 3DS and Wii U.
Nowadays even the proponents for classifying Switch as eighth gen have to agree that Switch belongs in the same generation as the PS5 and Xbox Series, because their popular main argument was that Switch will have spent more of its lifetime competing with the PS4 and XB1 than the PS5 and XS. Subsequently, Switch's successor will spend most of its lifetime competing against the PS6 and whatever's left of Xbox.
The real main reason why Switch was classified as eighth gen by many was that they wanted to hand Nintendo a loss in at least some form after Sony had to exit the handheld space. Since the argument that Nintendo had exited the home console space was unsustainable, the next best thing was to say that Nintendo lost so bad that they had to launch two consoles in the same generation.
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Yeah, I remember they saying if we follow the successor as the mark of the beginning of a new gen we would also have a messy timeline because Switch would be replaced by 2022 and its successor would compete most of its time with PS5 and XSeries. By 2026 it would be 2 generations discrepancy with that reasoning.
Two years after 2022 and probably still one year left to see something about Switch's successor...
