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fatslob-:O on 28 February 2018
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Pemalite said:

Sony had never released a Pro before. Period.
This is entirely new territory.

Aside from maybe the PSP 2000 where they increased the amount of memory and some games made use of it! 

Pemalite said:

The Goal Posts still haven't moved for you.

Ignore him and don't take him too seriously, he strikes me as a person with lot's of extreme prejudices ...

Pemalite said: 

Allot of people do care about functionality. - I very much cared that my Xbox One X wasn't able to exceed 1080P on my Quad HD display, I enjoyed that some of my favorite games got "enhanced" for free.

But that is not going to be applicable to everyone.

During the Playstation 3 era, Sony gamers were consistently lambasting the Xbox 360's lack of functionality, especially in regards to Wifi, Blu-Ray, Card Reader, User replaceable Hard Drive, Backwards Compatibility... List goes on. And they were genuine, relevant criticisms... The Xbox 360 was indeed lacking.

They are checkbox features, some will care for them, some will not, and that is okay.
And it's been good advertising for Microsoft, especially with Digital Foundry and other outlets doing comparisons on a pretty decent cadence.

Their opinion was the minority as shown in last gen when the Wii won with the LEAST amount of multimedia functionality ... 

The fact that most of the PS3 games ran worse in comparison to the 360 means it was questionable if BC itself was a worthwhile endeavor especially in PS4's case where it could've ran PS3 games SLOWER than the original hardware itself ... 

When a great portion of PS4's userbase were new or returning PS users, that there was a market for remastering games and the technical benefits that come with it being that PS4 itself was a massive leap over the PS3 in performance it became much clearer to them in which direction they were headed to delivering older content ... (I don't think it would've been all that ideal to emulate what were technically inferior versions of games and then obtain even worse performance)