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"Which Gen is your Gen?"

Which gen is this gen, what gen was last gane and and when is the next gen?

This confises me since differenct mags tend to place different systems at different levels...

Are N64, PSX last gen of this gen?

What gen is the Dreamcast? Is it last gen, or was that the saturn, is it this gen did it lose out before this gen arrived? or is it a cross gen?

If the PS2 is a next gen consoles, how come its been avalible since last year?

And, since the PS2 has been avalible since last year, does this mean GC and X-Box are unreleased this gen systems?

Or has the old systems of classing systems into their generational system spec releases been outmoded since diferent manufactures now work more to thier own time frame than those of others...

Have the console wars become extinct, not because of pacifism and global gameplayer respect because systems come out so far apart they dont compete in the same way ( e.g. as the SNES and Megadrive did?)

Are the multinationals now working to the beat of their own drums, and not that of the gaming community?

PS2 sales compete more with those of the PS1 than of any other console?

Since casual gamers define the sales of the console market. Do machines really compete on the business level, in advertising and product placement over system spec and gamer quality?



Which gen is your gen?

Have the console wars been replaced by the marketing wars?

And compaired to what I usually get up to when its quiet and I'm bored... I think you should all be thanking me...

:)

Zeldapro wrote:
One thing that confuses me is
> the first paragraph of the original post I had trouble understanding
> the speelluinngs!

Aye... sorry about that... It was quiet and I was bored

:)

I think consoles developed quite recently , PS2, Dreamcast, Nintendo are this gen and XBOX, GC and GBA are next gen and last gen was SNES, NES, GB (1986), SS, are old!

One thing that confuses me is the first paragraph of the original post I had trouble understanding the speelluinngs!

Maybe tommorow you'll want to settle down.
Until tommorow you'll just keep playing games.

Wòókiee Møn§†€R wrote:
> Meka, you Little Hobo you! :-)

Ah, you noticed!

Meka, you Little Hobo you! :-)

In view of the next generation consoles I feel that there's a voice that keeps on calling me and down the road is where I'll always be.

I feel that I should pursue the new, but I don't miss out on what's around, in fact every stop I make, I make a new friend. Meaning that I find a bunch of games I like and stuff....

I would say that the DC is current gen, as is the PS2, 'Cube and XBox.

They are all 128 bit, even though some of them aren't released yet.

Next gen consoles will be the 256 bit machines, but we won't see them for a while.

Think about it like this:

Me and my brother are of the same generation, even though he is 4 years older than me.

In the same way, the DC and the XBox are the same generation, even though the DC will be older than the X when it's releaed.

My favourite Generation will always be the megadrive. I never owned an 8-bit console, you see (though I did play on a few), so the leap up in quality from spectrum to Megadrive was huge. It was made that bit more special as I got it as a present for passing my 11+. The wait for the N64 was too long, and games I bought were too few for it to compare. The best years of my gaming life wnet into that megadrive. *sniff*.

As for the generation argument, it's probably best to think of the Dreamcast as a premature birth which could only live for so long on it's life support facilities. the others all fall neatly into one generation.

Your Honour wrote:
There was then another 64bit machine released, N64.
> This was a fourth generation machine.

Now we are into the fifth
> generation, 128nit. This gen encapsulates the DC, PS2 and the
> X-Box.

But...

Which generation is last generation... which generation is the current generation... and which generation is next generation?

How can the Dreamcast be next gen when its no longer manufactured?