Thanks for the concise summary mate.  You're a striaght talker just like your favorite candidate, you've really cleared the air on this issue.

The Wii is a sixth gen console because it is only a little more powerful than the original xbox and nowhere near as powerful as the ps3 and 360. Plus. it doesn't run in hd mode and this is the hd era in all things except for the leading game console on the market. Other features of 7th gen consoles that the Wii doesn't have. It doesn't have multiple cores as do the 360 and PS3 which do have multiple cores that run at several times the speed of the Wii's processor. Ie. these gens used to be callled the 16 bit era and the 32 bit era...the Wii's cpu is much more in line with what one would expect in the last gen. Even if the Wii's motion control makes it a 7th gen console it only does so in the way that the pc engine wasn't a true fourth gen and the jaguar wasn't a true fifth gen console.

Good points Paul, did you think those up yourself?

Also the Wii is selling very well, which is clearly a last-gen trait.

this might of been funny last year. i havent heard the whole "wii is a last-gen system" thing since its launch.

but was a nice try

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 his post had nothing to do with me saying "i havent heard the whole "wii is a last-gen system" thing since its launch."

I seriously enjoyed this thread. This unique idea way of viewing the current console landscape may have been discussed before, but it's new to me. Good job Mr. Bread.

"Good points Paul, did you think those up yourself?"

Yes, I did. Now here are more illustrations. I have heard that the Wii's cpu runs at less than 1000 megahertz a second (I've actually heard that it runs under 800 Megahertz a second which puts in squarely in the last gen as the first XBOX's cpu also ran in the 700 megahertz a second range). Now the 360 has 3 cpu's that run at over 3,000 megahertz a second, the PS3 has 9 cores that run at a simililar or faster speed, and my laptop purchased in the Summer of 2007 is an Intel Centrino Duo. So it would seem to me that seventh gen consoles and computers have as one of their most innovative features more than one cpu working in tandem to deliver their processing power. If the Wii doesn't have these kinds of unified cpu's, then it can't be a true current gen console.

Paul, what do you think of 7th gen sales being the lowest for a generation since the 80's?