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Console Generations for Dummies

FireEmblem_Man · 2017-03-25 08:11:55

Game console generations tend to overlap. We are in transition from Generation 8 to Generation 9.Wii U and 3DS are Generation 8.The successor to both of those is the Switch. The Switch is Generation 9.What is confusing people is that the Switch software isn’t Generation 9 just yet. Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 are Wii U ports. It would be like launching the SNES with NES ports.PS4 and Xbox One were launched in 2013. They are four years old. Both consoles are reaching their climax. This is why Microsoft and Sony are putting out more hardware because they have no idea what to do for Generation 9.Switch will confuse many people because it is the ONLY handheld console left. People keep trying to act like Switch is chasing PS4 or Xbox One. They couldn’t be more long. Switch is defining the market of Generation 9. It will be difficult for Sony, who has failed in the handheld space, to respond to the Switch.3DS was launched in 2011.Wii U was launched in 2012.The average span for a generation is 5-6 years. Switch is definitely the Next Gen to 3DS and Wii U. No one can say otherwise without looking ridiculous (but when has that ever stopped the hardcore?).Console generations are defined by time, not by ‘power’. The Switch is not more powerful than the PS4 or Xbox One not because it is ‘in their generation’, but because Switch offers handheld portability as its console value.People have been trying to re-write the past for a decade now. Analysts were trying to get PlayStation 1 to be ‘Generation 1’ back in Gen 7 (which I am sure the NES and Sega Genesis came from the Land Before Time, yes?).We are in a year long transition to Generation 9. At E3, Nintendo will show off their Gen 9 software./malstrom

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#101 FireEmblem_Man

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@Pedro said:

@FireEmblem_Man said:

LMAO on Cows that feel threaten of the Switch!

How and why would they feel threatened?

They're already feel threaten to the Xbox Scorpio, and now feel threaten of losing Japan to Nintendo.

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#102 lordroberts774

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Pro and S aren't going to last as long as the original lasted, meaning the PS5 and NextBox are coming in 2019/2020, so unless Nintendo releases a Switch 2 just 3 years after Switch, most its life is going to compete with PS5 and NextBox, so either Nintendo is skipping that generation, or the Switch was an early release for it.

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#103 Blackhairedhero

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@FireEmblem_Man: The PS5 will shitstomp switch sales worldwide just as the PS4 has.

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#104 BlueIon

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LOL I love how I cant make up my mind about any of the arguments in this thread #confused

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#105 Edited By deactivated-5c203f71675ff

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This thread, just... Lol

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#106 Edited By tgob89

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This thread proves how clueless and idiotic most of you SW fanboys here really are.

Generations are determined by DEVELOPMENT FOCUS!

That's it!

TC is wrong about what make a new console generation, but on a smaller scale the Switch is *Nintendo's* next generation platform...because of their development focus on the system!

Generations = When a primary market leader introduces new hardware and most of the INDUSTRY'S development focus shifts from the previous hardware to development on the newest hardware.

^ THAT'S a new generation!

This is why I say Switch is Nintendo's next generation platform (they've shifted all Their development from Wii U to Switch) but dose not translate to the start of the new generation because all of the industries development focus is still on PS4 and Xbox one.

This is also why people who say generations are dead pointing to the X and Pro are idiots because neither Sony nor MS made any attempts to focus full development on either of those half backed upgrades.

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