Is Switch 2 the start of the 10th Generation? (Poll)

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Norion said:

Cassiel said:

Switch 2 will be a PS5/Xbox Series gen console that will also span the whole PS6/Xbox Prime gen ( 2026-2034 ). Xbox Prime will release at the end of 2026, PS6 on November 2027, while Switch 2 will last at least for 8 year until 2033, meaning covering the other two's next gen too, besides this one. 1,5 of the other two's gens exactly like the Switch did ( PS4/Xbox One gen plus half of PS5/Xbox Series gen ). Even if you take it based on perfomance output, Switch 2 is above Xbox Series S in performance ( 3 Teraflops docked + forced dynamic low resource closed enviroment optimised DLSS 3.5 ), so that makes it a PS5/Xbox Series gen console, that will run every single game of the current gen, something pretty obvious by the tons of high end AAA game ports already leaked for it and many developers comments on it's easy porting ability of current gen games.

That's not true, the Series S will be better than it aside from the Switch 2 having a RAM advantage. And it'll be able to run the clear majority but anything that is particularly CPU intensive will be an issue.

The Ram advantage is only in a single aspect. Total capacity.

We don't know how much Ram is available to developers... The Series S is extremely "lean" in that regard.

And the Series S has faster Ram.

killer7 said:

Generations are defined on when they launched. vgchartz chartz on the front page does it right. The latest Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony systems are part of the same generation. If Sony was to launch PS6 and MS came out with an Xboxwhatever they both would compete with Switch 2 in the same generation. Talks like "generations are over", "console wars are over" are wrong. As long as there are consoles with physical games from at least 2 different brands there are generations and there will be competition.

There are lots of different ways we can define a generation... And it doesn't have to be so rigid and unmoving as you would imply just to satiate your own immovable world-view.
We have storage medium generations for example... Tape, Mechanical Hard Drives, Solid State Drives or... Carts, CD Rom, DVD Rom, Blu-Ray and then Streaming.

By "years launched" is one possible way. - But wouldn't that also make the PS5 Pro a 10th gen console? And who gets to start the generation?