I'm upgrading this year, not because of the consoles, but because hardware releases finally align properly. I've already been playing on SSDs since before the current console generation so I doubt my new PC will be much of an upgrade in that regard. No gaming PC that has been built in the past 3 years is without SSD and that will continue to be the case during next generation with ever faster and faster SSDs.
However I stand by my prediction that SSDs will not be a minimum requirement for games in the coming years and will still be plenty fine to play without them. SSDs much like a strong GPU and CPU will still be optional and people will still be able to build budget PCs or super machines as much as they want or their budget allows. SSDs will be the least concern for budget builds when it comes to performance/money ratio, though I assume most budget builds will go for them regardless considering the massively dropped prices.
PCIe 4 won't be needed at all in the next 5 years. Neither for graphics cards or SSDs. It's luxury, much like all other PC parts.
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