There’s no hard and fast rule that says how old a console needs to be for it and it’s games to be considered retro.
There are a lot of people that say that anything from two generations ago is retro. That would put the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Wii in the retro camp.
Do you think the PS3 generation is retro or if not what consoles do you consider to be retro systems?
Yes. I never said it didn’t. I think you may have misread what I was trying to say or maybe are responding to something else?
I read this as 3D being the last 20 years, but I assume from your response you meant there was only 20 years of gaming before 3D came into the picture?
Gotcha. Yes, that’s what I meant.
20 years is generous, actually. You have to go to very early gaming to get into the 70s and include all the Pong-likes. If you go by programmable home consoles and start with the 2600, that’s only 18 years between its 1977 launch and the PS1’s 1995 release.