/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3836105
I don't take gens classifications that seriously anymore but try calling the Wii a sixth gen console around Nintendo fans and see how they react.

>>3787536
The Wii was just a sixth gen console that came out during seventh gen. It's an overclocked GameCube with waggle gimmick.

>>3782691
Generation numbering doesn't really make much sense until the Xbox, since they and PlayStation tend to release their consoles really closely and with very similar specs, while Nintendo went on to do their own thing with their blue ocean strategy.

It kinda fascinates me how Nintendo diehards think that the Wii outselling the 360 and PS3 means anything when half of the userbase consisted of elderly people who only used the thing as a Wii Sports box and never bothered playing anything else.

>>3773559
>Hardware power doesn't matter, what matters is time.
Wrong. That's how they were defined in the first place.
>Third gen: Started by the NES, which revived the console gaming market in the U.S.
>Fourth gen: Started by the TG16, the first console with a 16-bit graphic processor, which pushed Sega and Nintendo to make the Genesis and Super NES respectively.
>Fifth gen: Arguably started by the 3DO and Jaguar, the first 32-bit and 64-bit consoles respectively. This forced the production of the PlayStation, Saturn and N64 (plus a bunch of failed consoles).
>Sixth gen: Started by the Dreamcast, which forced the production of the PS2, which in turn forced the production of the GameCube and Xbox.
>Seventh gen: Started by the Xbox 360, with the PS3 following suit.
>Eighth gen: Started by the PS4 and Xbox One.

A lot of these categorizations were done retroactively and mostly by American millennials who didn't start gaming until the NES. Hence why all the pre-crash consoles are lumped under 2nd gen, despite Atari releasing a succeeding console in the same generation, while the SG-1000 and SMS are lumped together under the same generation (both competed against the Famicom along with the Mega Drive, but it was the Mega Drive that stuck around to compete with Super Famicom).

Nintendo's consoles since the Wii hadn't really been competing with Sony and MS spec-wise, since Nintendo has adopted a blue ocean strategy where they rely on targeting a niche instead. It's absurd to think that the Switch is the start of a ninth generation when it's not even competitive against the base models of the PS4 and Xbox One, much less the enhanced PS4 Pro and Scorpio models.

To summarize, gens are pretty much determined by the following
Gen 1: Pong machines
Gen 2: All the pre-crash consoles
Gen 3: Whatever was competing with the NES
Gen 4: Whatever was competing with Super NES.
Gen 5-8: Whatever is competing with the latest PlayStation console at the time.