What is with the Color TV? That would make Switch gen 8. PS4 is by that logic gen 4 though.

Virtual Boy is kinda difficult to decide which type it is. Some classify it as portable, but I'm not so sure, it has not the usual use-case of a portable device. I personally say Virtual Boy is gen 1 of virtual reality devices from Nintendo.

For me neither Virtua Boy nor WiiU count a change in gen for the one that came after because they were prematurely killed and substituted with another console within same gen.

Technology and shared library for Switch is compatible to gen 8 and won't be for gen 9 for most of it, so it makes more sense to group on gen 8 even if it end up having 2 Nintendo consoles on it.

In the end, it does't make much sense to speak about console generation right Now.
Console gen will definitively end with the current one.
All the actual generations were:

- 8 bit gen (atari, nes, master system)
- 16/24 bit gen (snes, megadrive, pc engine, neogeo)
- 32/64 bit gen (playstation, saturn, n64, 3do, jaguar, amiga cd32)
- 128 bit gen (dreamcast, playstation2, gamecube, xbox)
- last classic gen (playstation3, xbox360, Wii)

Switch is basically a Wii U pro lol so gen 8.

8th generation

Switch released early 2017 only a few months after we got the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X mid-gen upgrades in 2016. And the next Playstation and Xbox consoles will most likely release not earlier than 2020. There's no way to consider the Switch a 9th gen console when it launched alongside the mid-gen upgrades of the 8th generation consoles. In some way we could consider the Switch as a mid-gen upgrade for the Wii U.

The only reason why people claim that Switch is 9th generation is because they can't deal with the fact that in 1.5-2 years Switch will already be outdated by the PS5/Next Xbox.

There was no "128-bit gen".

The Original Xbox was 32-bit and the Dreamcast is also 32bit.
The Playstation 2 and Gamecube had 64bit capabilities with a 32bit subset. - We could probably class them as 32bit devices.

Even today Jaguar is just a 64bit processor.

Bits are about as useful as flops in determining system capabilities or console generation groupings.

You are wrong, Jaguar have 8 64 bit processor, so with my marketing shenanigans I call it a 512-bit gen system.

If we want to consider technology, I'd say that this gen has only PS4 and XBO. Nintendo left standard home console market as soon as Wii U died. So Wii U is 8th gen and the last standard traditional home console of Nintendo. Switch is 3DS successor.

Whatever lol.