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DocDelicious posted...

Good quiz but there's some misinformation in there.
8th gen started in 2013. WiiU is a 7th generation console.

Wii-U was never really considered a 7th gen console.

The standard assumption has always been NES (3), SNES (4), 64 (5), GC (6), Wii (7), Wii-U (8). The Wii-U's intended competition was always meant to be the PS4 and Xbone, not the PS3 and 360. It was really only the apocalyptic failure of the Wii-U that caused Nintendo to panic and pivot on that.

With the advent of the Switch, Nintendo's insistence that it's the "official" console of this generation (and not a handheld at all, damn it! It's a portable home console, not a handheld that can be docked to your TV!), and people saying it's the "real" current gen console it's sort of retroactively become the 8th gen console, but that doesn't retroactively push the Wii-U back a generation - it just means that Nintendo technically had two consoles this gen (and one of them failed). Or more accurately, one console, one handheld, and one weird hybrid of the two that effectively replaced both of the first two simultaneously.

If you like, you can think of the Switch as part of the 8.5 generation, and sort of tuck it in with the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X as sort of a half-step forward.

Though what makes things even more complicated is that the Switch is probably going to remain Nintendo's core console for a while once the next gen starts and the PS5 and Xbox come out, so the Switch is going to straddle its way into the 9th gen as well. Unless Nintendo panics and rushes out ANOTHER new console (which seems unlikely, considering how popular the Switch wound up being).
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