7th gen wins this easily. 8th generation is the worst one since the video game crash. 7th gen had a lot of great systems. Wii, PS3, DS and PSP were all great systems that I got a good amount of enjoyment from. At the same time Wii U, PS4, 3DS and Vita were all hugely disappointing.

Theres some great games in the 7th gen, but the highs are higher in the 8th as far as im concerned.

7th gen was my least favorite gen since the NES. Poor output from Japan except for the Wii and the last years of the PS3. There were good games like Valkyria Chronicles, Ni no Kuni, Fallout, and Xenoblade, but 8th gen was better in every way. 7th gen also hollowed out games between AAA and low-budget, and I didn't much care for the annual rehashes coming from EA, Activision, and Ubisoft. 8th generation had a bigger variety for a wider array of tastes and price points. 

7th gen and it wasnt really close.
Switch is on a role though so gen 9 topping last gen shouldnt be too hard.

7th Gen by a long mile with the Xbox 360 definitely having the console edge in terms of game hours invested. (Although PC definitely trounces everything.)

8th gen just felt like a continuation of the 7th gen in every regard, games didn't really open up and become new experiences, they just took a step forwards to higher visual settings that I was already enjoying on PC anyway.

there is plenty of 8th gen games I quite love, but is not even close to the 7th gen in terms of quantity of really good games, I think is also a factor that some of the games I really love from the 8th gen are just a perfection of a game from the previous gen so is hard to give it the full merit, like with Tropical Freeze or Xenoblade X. I also have all the home consoles and the DS from that gen, didn't really care for the PS4 or Xbox One and by the time they had some neat games I already had a PC good enough to run the handful that I was interested in.

7th gen was also the small period of time where Dead Rising was good, Atelier reached its peak with Arland and Dusk, and Tales of had its last excellent game with Vesperia.

@Bolded This is why a lot of people don't consider PS3 or 360 to be retrogaming even though both systems are over ten years old. Games from the early 3D era feel markedly different from games of the 2D era. Games from the 6th gen feel markedly different from games of the 7th gen. But 8th gen? That's just 7th gen with extra graphical bells and whistles. 

Edit: Also this is the secret to Switch's success. Switch can play PS5/Series games so long as they are downgraded. Switch can offer the same style of gameplay that 7th, 8th, and 9th gen consoles have had all this time. Except Switch is portable, and has Nintendo games. 

Ever since the Wii Nintendo had the disadvantage of being about a gen behind everybody else. But that doesn't matter now, because everything is scalable. If I told somebody in 2017 that Switch could run Witcher 3, they'd say I was insane. And yet here we are with a Witcher 3 port to the system! :D

Possibly 8, but I don't know. I'm going to abstain from the poll for the moment until I decide.

One thing I think 8th gen home consoles did better in was reliability. Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii had higher failure rates and issues than they should've had.

It's also misleading how so many people call the 7th Gen an HD generation. Most PS3 and 360 games were barely 720p. I like to think Gen 8 was the first true HD generation.

I will say 7th gen, the PS4 is my favorite console of the 7th and 8th gen, but the combination of the Wii/PS3 and 360 for those that had it is hard to beat. For me ps4 is better than PS3, Wii is better than Wii U, One is better than 360, and the DS is better than the 3DS.

Gonna say 7th gen. The 360 was handled much better than the X1, and had some real heavy hitting exclusives to boot. For the majority of the gen it could be considered a must own console, despite drying up in the last two years.

The PS3 stumbled out of the gate, but it also laid the foundation for the 1st party IPs that were built upon and continued in gen 8.  And when it comes to some of those IP like TLoU, Uncharted, and Infamous...the best entries by a wide margin were NEW on the PS3.

The Wii might be my least favorite Nintendo console, but it gave me one of my favorite Zelda games...Skyward Sword. It also gave us Metroid Prime 2/3, Mario Galaxy series, and Xenoblade Chronicles...so all things considered it had a lot to offer. Much more than the WiiU overall (even though I liked the WiiU as a console more).