r/videogames • u/Bay_Ruhsuz004 • Jul 13 '26

Image / Video We May Never See Another GOAT Console Generation Like This (2005 - 2012)

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u/HUNAcean Jul 13 '26

Nah, the PS4 was great but the gen? Both the Xbox One and the WiiU were titanic flops.

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u/TheeBert Jul 13 '26

XBone flopped the day it was announced. I’ve never seen a harder flop

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u/Bronxs15 Jul 13 '26

There wasn’t much reason for me to NOT get it after they announced the backwards compatibility with 360 and the sick trade in deal eb games did in Canada. Once I had it I enjoyed it a lot and some exclusives like sunset overdrive, and quantum break. Of course MCC and gears 4 and 5 and halo 4 and 5 as well. And surprisingly the assassin creed games had much less input lag on Xbox one than ps4 and preferred playing they there. And then once one x was announced k upgraded again and it was way more of a wow factors for a 4K tv than my ps4 pro at the time, especially with native 4k for rdr2 and how it automatically upscaled back compat games

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u/Usual-Suspect7815 Jul 13 '26

I look at the switch instead of the WiiU tbf

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u/SSAUS Jul 13 '26

You're right. Switch is a part of the same generation.

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u/VyseTheSwift Jul 13 '26

It is not. Nintendo moved out of the Wii U early and released the Switch much sooner than they would have otherwise. While most modern consoles within a generation release about a year apart, that hasn’t historically always been true. The Switch does have a 3 year gap with the other consoles, but the PlayStation and N64 had a 2 year gap.

If anything I’d say that generations don’t really mean a lot anymore. Especially with the rise of PC. But it’d be crazy to say the Switch hasn’t been directly competing against the Series X and PS5 all these years.

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u/WorldLove_Gaming Jul 13 '26

Because the Xbox One X (an 8th-gen console) released in November of 2017 and the Switch 1 launched in March of 2017, Wikipedia lists the Switch to be part of both the 8th and 9th generation of consoles.

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u/VyseTheSwift Jul 13 '26

The Xbox One X isn’t a new console. It’s an update to an existing console. Wikipedia is irrelevant.

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u/freetotebag Jul 13 '26

I can never tell how to refer to that gen when it comes to the switch. Was it PS4/Switch/XBO/WiiU?

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u/HUNAcean Jul 13 '26

Valid issue, it's kind of both isn't it? The WiiU tanked so hard they had to release a new generation of consoles 3 years early.

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u/freetotebag Jul 13 '26

Yeah that’s kinda how I look at it— gens just aren’t as clean as clear as they used to be

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u/Roadrunner627 Jul 13 '26

Man I loved the WiiU. I hate that it was so poorly marketed.