Should "Pro " consoles have had games incompatible with their base counterparts.

[JackHandy]

SanAndreasX said:

Given that the mid-generation refreshes represented a fraction of the overall sales of each generation, no. Any game that was made only for the mid-gen refresh would be dealing with a much smaller user base. The lone exception to this might be the Game Boy Color, whose sales were fueled in part by something the PS4P, X1S, and PS5P didn't have, which was Pokemon.

You are absolutely correct about the user base issue, 100%. But handhelds were super cheap, and different from home consoles. They played by different rules.