i mean if we go by that metric, nintendo is still winning. but i think the fairest thing to do is just look at units sold. its clear (well, in all cases but 1), its easily attainable, its marketshare, and historically, its always been the measure of who won that generation. units sold is the metric.

I say this as someone who turns on his ps5 once every 3 months and thinks Nintendo is the best developer on the planet...  only people I see caring about this is a select few Nintendo fans.  Everyone else seems busy playing games.  

so are you saying you want championships to be a yearly thing where we look at which company made the most money? 

Maybe, maybe not.  Sony gets a cut of all third-party sales on their platform and gets lord knows how much from PSN+.

Sales is a terrible metric.  Claiming otherwise screams ignorance as it relates to business.    

Weekly.  We should crown weekly, yes that is what I am saying.  

if it weren't for boredom I wouldn't even be posting.  Well, not entirely true, I can't decide if your posts are meant to be serious or if you are taking a piss.  I want to believe you are taking a piss.

ok well in my mind, championships shouldnt be something that occurs on a weekly basis. they should be special. i think the most sensible thing is that championships should be generations won and maybe pennants can be done as a yearly thing. maybe as a community we can iron out these details, but if we kept track of that sort of thing, i think it would be good. units sold in a generation is championships, units sold in a year is pennants. swap sales out for actual money earned if youre of that mindset, but the concept remains the same. i think since this is vgchartz and we look at sales data and thats kind of the weird obsession we have (the average person doesnt care about sales the way we do), sales data just seems to make way more sense. and you know what, even before vgchartz, thats always how winners were determined. its just how it is. its like trying to change the electoral college. thats just how we determine the winner, for better or for worse. dont know what to tell you about that. 

Such a wise thread-idea!Winner of 8.5 gen.
Ps4 and Xbone were released in 2013, one year after wii u! Nintendo Switch 4 years after them, not long enough! If it was about five years?Then,Nintendo Switch competed with ps4 and xboxone for three years and with Xbox series and Ps5 for 5 years.
Given that, it's the winner of 9th gen.
The sheer winner will be gaming indurtsty, because PS5 will most likely pass 120m, along with NS AND XBOX sales, the record of 7th gen will be broken and even hitting the 300m milestone.
Well, exluding the handhelds, but it doesn't make a big difference . due to double dippers.

Pretty much, most wii owners must have been owning a ds and vice versa.

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. 

An 8th gen system succeeding another 8th gen system...

Yeah, I guess bro. Its pretty weird

Switch is the generation after the Wii U. And the Switch 2 marked the beginning of a new generation. Trying to argue it is the same generation as the Wii is trying to argue for the absurd to be true.

Combined generations haven’t really been relevant for a long time. Right now, Switch and Switch 2 are both selling enough to be competing against Xbox 4 and PS5, and that’s reality.