| mjk45 said: I don't believe the Pro consoles extended anything all that happened was if you were a gamer who wanted standard PS and Xbox games with a smoother experience or were a later adopter you now had that choice. |
There's normally pressure, late in a generation, on the huge delta between console and PC performance. It's likely that some gamers drift towards consoles early in a generation, and then drift back to PC one-by-one, as the performance gap grows. The "pro" consoles reduced that delta, so likely stemmed that flow last gen. And that reduced pressure to launch the new generation in, say, 2018 or 2019 (vs. 2020). Generations can and do last longer than that, but the longer the generation goes on the worse the gap goes. Look at how bad PS360 games were vs. PCs in 2012 and 2013!
