What's the newest gen you consider "retro?" | |||
| Gen 7 | 0 | 0% | |
| Gen 6 | 1 | 33.33% | |
| Gen 5 | 2 | 66.67% | |
| Gen 4 or earlier | 0 | 0% | |
| Total: | 3 | ||
What in your mind is the cut off point for what systems count as "retro"?
Do you consider Wii/PS3/360 to be retro? Or does the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox/Dreamcast generation mark the newest gen that's retro? Or an even older gen?
What do you think?
92,251 
Gen 6 and older is what I consider retro. Gen 7 IMO is to recent being at most 20 years old with the Xbox 360.
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Yeah Gen 7 still feels "modern" to me too, it has HD support, online out of the box, built in storage as standard, most of the core features of modern consoles.
That said, I don't quite feel Gen 6 to be "retro", maybe cos as an SNES kid I still remember how next level Gamecube/Xbox/PS2/Dreamcast felt at the time and how different they felt to say the early 3D of Gen 5 or the 2D era.
PS1/N64/Saturn and before it was I consider "Retro".
89,804 
My gut feeling is anything 6th gen and before, in part due to age and in part due to game design philosophy. It’s very difficult to call 7th gen retro, for me, because so much of the DNA of modern consoles and games comes from that era — for better or worse.
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