> They are effectively nothing like the first, second, or even third generation consoles that had fairly unique hardware, desirable exclusives and so on. I am

> They are effectively nothing like the first, second, or even third generation consoles that had fairly unique hardware, desirable exclusives and so on. I am not sure how you are counting them, but the second generation were the Atari 2600 and its peers, and the third generation were the NES and the Master System. Consoles had unique hardware until the 7th generation (PS3 and X360).