It would be a huge mistake IMO. It makes some sense logically to offer a more powerful system for those who want it, but the problem is it will instantly be labeled as the better system and it will be like the PS3 price issue all over again (although this time without all the other hindrances like Cell being hard to develop for).
If the console makers are going to do the whole Pro model, do it mid-gen or 3 years down the road where the hardware in the PC market evolves enough to offer better performance on the GPU side, at a price to manufacture similar to the original manufacturing cost of the original model at launch.
The Pro consoles are going to be less necessary since the current consoles were CPU bound, but the leap in GPU performance allowed for performance mode. The new consoles will have CPUs that don't limit fps and therefore the Pro consoles will only benefit from higher resolutions in most games, and maybe mid/high in 3rd party games vs. high/ultra for the Pro consoles.
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