Talk:Nintendo Switch 2: Difference between revisions

== Regarding the video game console generation categorization ==

To get this opinion out of the way first, I do not like the video game console generation system. I won't dwell on it here but to keep it short the system we know of today was largely created sometime in the mid-2000s by [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:List of citogenesis incidents#Terms that became real|various Wikipedia editors]]. In recent years it has been [https://www.timeextension.com/features/is-wikipedia-really-to-blame-for-video-game-console-generations criticized by several video game historians and researchers] as the numbered generation system is not widely understood due to its arbitrary nature.

With that out of the way, I want to ask about where the Nintendo Switch 2 even falls into regarding this? Currently on this wiki the [[Nintendo Switch]] is filed under "Eighth generation" but on Wikipedia it is both filed under "Eighth / Ninth" with the following note "The Switch has been compared and considered to compete with consoles of both the eighth and ninth generation by sources.". I have seen some attempt to categorize the Nintendo Switch 2 under the "Ninth" but where did that come from? That sort of leads into how we even determine how this console generation system even works? Who even makes that call? I'm not quite sure the answer is sources on news sites since they often contradict each other regarding this. So what gives? --[[User:Bro3256|Bro3256]] ([[User talk:Bro3256|talk]]) 01:37, April 8, 2025 (EDT)