Is nintendo the winner of the 8th gen or the 9th gen?

[curl-6]

angrypoolman said:

curl-6 said:

Console generations are an arbitrary construct, there really isn't any objective criteria that defines them. 

I mean, you can group them based on simple common sense. Lol.

"Common sense" isn't objective either though, it means different things to different people.

You could argue that it's "common sense that Switch is Gen 9 cos it's the successor to the Gen 8 Wii U/3DS" and you could argue that it's "common sense it's Gen 8 cos blah blah etc etc."

Last edited by curl-6 - on 07 January 2026