A whole host of information about Resident Evil Village dropped during a recent livestream--a May release date, the reveal of a PS5 demo, and more details about the very tall, very hot vampire lady. But beyond that, one thing about the livestream that really stuck out to me was the description of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game as "next gen" and the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions as "current gen."

It got me thinking about when we should stop referring to the PS5 and the Xbox Series X|S as "next gen." Both consoles have been out for over two months now. They aren't something that's on the way anymore, they're actually here in quite a few peoples' homes. But folks--even me, sometimes--seemingly still think that the console generation hasn't actually switched yet.

To be honest, I'm not sure when I'm going to start naturally referring to Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 as the "current gen," despite the fact that I have both a Series X and PS5 and have been using them since November. At the very least, I've come to start referring to them as "new gen" instead of "next gen" whenever I've had to write about them, but my brain hasn't made the subconscious switch to refer to Xbox One and PS4 as the old hardware. I still need to stop and remind myself of that.