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Message: [QUOTE="starseeker300, post: 10653, member: 4037"] I personally agree with the sentiment that the 6th console generation (gamecube, ps2, og xbox, and dreamcast) is the last retro generation, but not because of any arbitrary cutoff date. But Rather because after that generation there were several shifts in the gaming landscape: 1.) gaming started to become more mainstream and receive more mainstream media coverage beyond just "hurr durr video games caused the violence, the kid totally didn't have anger issues before" 2.) technological advancement of game systems slowed down significantly, look at the jump from the snes to the ps1 and then to the og xbox, and then compare that from the 360 and ps3 to xbone and ps4 and then to series x and ps5. the difference in graphics, game speed, hardware power, etc. is a lot less in the latter group when compared to the former group 3.) triple a games became a thing which created a shift in development philosophies for most companies yes these shifts did start during the 6th generation but the didn't become fully realized until the 7th, at least in home consoles, handhelds didn't really follow that trend until the current generation (the 9th) with the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck. I would even go as far to say that one could see the same kind of 6th to 7th generation shift repeated in handhelds during the main console lifetimes of 3ds and psvita tldr: retro is 6th generation and back for consoles and 7th or 8th generation and back for handhelds because of shifting gaming landscape and not because of an arbitrary cutoff year [/QUOTE]

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