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

[angrypoolman]

TheRealSamusAran said:

angrypoolman said:

i mean, switch released halfway through gen 8. 

if you want to get real specific, the switch launched 40 months after ps4/xbox one came out, and 44 months before ps5/xsx came out. so by that metric, it was a little before half way, but for the sake of argument, we will say half way. 

now, timing of release is basically the gold standard by which we judge its generation, but since in this case its ambiguous, we have to look at other factors (by the way, this isnt the only time in which console release timing is ambiguous when determining the generation of a console). 

i think the most obvious thing to look at is power. its the most sensible tiebreaker there is. switch is closer powerwise to a ps4 than a ps5. there is no real question about that. many of the multiplat games it has, it shares with ps4 and not ps5. 

i have a real hard time seeing this system being classified as 9th gen. it just simply does not fit. it was a late addition to 8th gen and was squeezed dry for an extra year or two longer than it should have existed because of how much it sold. otherwise the successor would have naturally came out in 2023 or so. its an 8th gen console.

im sorry but any attempt to classify it as 9th gen just really comes off as sony fans trying to preserve an 8th gen championship, it just does. now that i see it, i cannot unsee it. 

Don't worry, little bro, Nintendo took gen 9 with the Switch and is gonna take gen 10 too.

ive yet to see any justification that its a 9th gen console other than it came out after the wii u.