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Back in the 80's they already had "evolving" and expanding consoles with the Colecovision...

I have Expansion Module 1 that allowed me to play Atari VCS games on my Colecovision (Yes, I still have it).

Evolving consoles are nothing new. It just hasn't been one by Sony or Microsoft yet.

I predict that both Sony and Microsoft will release new consoles soon. But, unlike previous consoles they will offer full forward and backwards compatibility because they won't change the architecture of either machine, but instead increase their abilities to support 4K and better support higher framerates. You will still be able to play all the PS4 and X1 games on older PS4 and X1 consoles, but they will degraded in resolution and framerate.