angrypoolman said:
it matters because we need to know in which generation nintendo won. throughout the entirety of the 7th generation on vgchartz, it was clear that nintendo won the generation. yes, people tried to discredit the championship in a variety of different ways, it happened basically every day on here. and the same thing is happening in this thread, so in that respect, nothing has changed. there are some people who have a difficult time with their company not winning, and i completely understand that. during 2014, 2015, 2016, it was tough. ps4 was selling like crazy even though their first year was remasters which i found to be very frustrating. and then because of nintendo's poor marketing, it didnt matter that we had a lot of great games in 2014, we got absolutely dominated by sony. but you know what? i dealt with it. i didnt make excuses, i dealt with reality. it seems whenever its our turn to win, everybody wants to discredit it and say it isnt deserved. the crazy thing that nobody saw coming was that nintendo was going to make a comeback and actually win the 8th generation. its a crazy story of the underdog that came back and claimed victory. thats why it matters what generation it is. i understand its ambiguous and i wouldnt necessarily fault somebody for saying switch is a 9th gen console, however, i cant help but feel that people are labeling it 9th gen because they spent the first half of the 8th gen thinking they had it wrapped up only to have victory snatched in the late hours. it never feels good to be walked off when you had a 8 or 9 run lead earlier in the game, but thats exactly what happened. and i think that is a hard thing for some people to cope with. anyway, i will toast to a fair game here in the 9th generation. ps5 has sold an incredible amount of consoles, 100 million is a lock for them. 100 million is nowhere near a lock for switch 2, although we have a promising start. id really like to just shake hands and say fair game without any bs or any discrediting. lets just see who wins. |
