Gaming reaches its peak years every five years or so.

[Wman1996]

LegitHyperbole said:

Nice

Wman1996 said:

I'll exclude Switch from the years like you said, but that will hurt the ratings of the years.
2020 - 7/10
This was mostly an eight-generation year, given the holiday season releases of the new consoles. As far as cross-gen games launching and next-gen games, it was not incredible but some solid stuff. Unfortunately, almost everything was cross-gen. Miles Morales and Astro's Playroom were the best.
2021 - 6/10
Pretty quiet in terms of anything I cared about. The two main highlights were PS5 enhanced versions of Ghost of Tsushima and Final Fantasy VII Remake. This was not a reassuring first full calendar year for the new consoles.
2022 - 8/10
Horizon: Forbidden West, Midnight Suns, Skywalker Saga, and a definitive campaign version of The Last of Us.
2023 - 8/10
Spider-Man 2 is the highlight. I like Jedi Survivor as well. Still not an excellent year on the 9th gen side.
2024 - 9/10
FF7 Rebirth, Persona 3 Reload, Astro's Playroom, what a banger year. I almost give it a 10. Despite some cross-gen games still around, this feels like the first full year of the 9th generation.
2025 will probably be a 9/10.

Nice, people will say 2024 isn't as good as 2023 but I feel like ratings mine again cause you're right, 2024 does seem to be better or at least equally as good. 

Oh and buy the way, I suppose switch would have to be in there cause it's spent more time in the true 9th gen now that outside of it. So scratch that rule. 

Switch is such a confusing platform in that regard. The hardware generations have been flawed for a while, and some changes or retcons previous things. ColecoVision and Atari 5200 would've probably started a generation if it wasn't for the crash, so they're a lost generation in a way between the 2nd and 3rd though they are considered 2nd.

I consider Switch 9th since it succeeded 3DS (eight-gen) and Wii U (also eighth gen). If nothing else, it's more on the 3DS side. Switch Lite and Switch as a whole is a big step up from even New 3DS. I imagine Wikipedia is probably going to call Switch 2 ninth generation once it launches since they have Switch as eighth generation. To me, Switch 2 is 10th Generation even though it's coming to market about 2-3 years before PS6 and a year or more before Xbox 5.