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Message: [QUOTE="Somnia, post: 26619, member: 26523"] It is nebulous but imo if something is within that 15-20 year range it is pretty definitively retro to me. It's all about generational gaps within humans. I think the term kind of loses meaning when the 7th generation and onward has seen so much homogenization within design and technology, so unlike the 6 gens prior it doesn't feel like there are as clear shifts and evolutions of the medium. I understand where people who wanna say the PS3/360/Wii and onward aren't as deserving of a retro moniker are coming from. When 15+ years removed from those systems launching we still have boatloads of DNA from those games in modern releases it definitelt doesn't feel like that unique of an era. But still, people who were born in 2005 are about to turn 20 this year. The PS3/360 will feel pretty retro to them when most formative memories of gaming and their earliest tastes of gaming nostalgia will be had with games from that era. We already kind of see this happening with the endless "omg remember when" posts about that era of Call of Duty and what have you. Sure a lot of that is propped up from people my age (late 20s/early 30s) who are just bitter about their lives post-high school not feeling as fulfilling, but a lot of it does come from people who were hadn't hit high school when the PS4 released reminiscing about their formative gaming memories on PS3/360 hardware. [/QUOTE]

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