Ok... conclusion time.

Consoles, being placed static in the home, can easily be given add-on peripherals for specific games.
Handhelds do not have that luxury in all cases, so seperate models are sometimes needed to refresh interest in the platform.

A platform is only of a new generation if it is intended to be so.... Nintendo WILL release another handheld eventually which has the purpose of being a seperate system. It may be able to play DS games as a backward compatible function, but it will be primarily for new games.

If the DSi were a new generation, different from the DS/DSlite, then we would already have had dozens of exclusive retail games for it.

Where will you put th HDD on the PS2 slim?

You can't play FFXI without it.

AND....................

Since PSP-1000 can't use skype, it UMD data isn't cached in memory to decrease game loading times and has less RAM, is an older generation right?

So does PSP-2000, after all, PSP-3000 let you enjoy more the beautiful graphics: it has higher contrast ratio, and wider color gamut. Not to mention the new video-out capability allows gameplay video to be output in interlaced format.

The GCs without the the Digital AV output are in another generation. (How there they not permit seeing Metroid in 480p?)

The GC with DVD player capabilities? Whole new generation, you can't do that on other GCs.

PSONE??? WTF, my old PS1 doesn't have a LCD screen in it to enjoy gaming in my car, how obsolet PS1 becomes.......

GB POCKET??? I need a special cable to connect to the older GB, shit new generation. GTFO with that cable!!!

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LOL............

Congrats, you answered a question that had already been answered...

As for the red stuff, i dont think they all had exclusive games, which is what i was talking about. Blue, i have no idea of what games were even released near it. Did it have GB Pocket exclusive games?

Then should the PS2 Slim and Phat be counted seperately?

DUHH!!!

I forgot iQue (This one was lauched in China, you can download N64 games in it on same store, really low prices for games.)

Me wants one (>'.')> (THAT you cant't do on N64)

The GC with DVd player you are talking about is the chromed one, with digital display. it really sold bad. =P

At least all the one I saw, had LCD screens built in it.

My cousins had those, I had the old one.  >_<

generation 7.5

If you have to compromise then sure why not. But if the DSi gets many exclusive games that aren't playable on the regular DS due to graphics and gameplay with the cameras then why wouldn't it be a new generation? It offers better hardware and even a new way to controle your games, that's what the Wii did aswell. I think Nintendo is also cheap for making only a small improvement instead of the DS2 that is DS backward compatible but that's what they did.

It's a smart move because charts like vggartz like this will sum up the DS and DSi sales while it's widely known that the DSi is bought by people who already have a DS. For me that's a sign of a new generation, but to each his own.

Welcome to 2004. It's an exciting new year, eh?

Oh my god, so much... fail from some of these posters.