Exactly... "there’s a dip mid-console lifecycle... We wanted to keep those people "

The point about the mid-gen slump is that Sony is/was comfortable with their competitiveness vs. PC at start of gen...
Obviously that didn't mean nobody was interested in PC at the time of PS4 entry, it means that Sony was relatively more competitive in early-gen,
and they want to be able to draw an EQUIVALENT segment thru-out lifetime of console gen (AKA remove the mid-gen slump), thus PS4 NEO (Pro).
They aren't forseeing drawing a LARGER segment now than they did at beginnign of gen, they are just aiming to maintain that segment (remove slump).

Again, as they spell out, they are aiming to remove the SLUMP, not increase their competitiveness beyond what they had at early gen.
Your critique here would apply equally to when PS4 was originally introduced, right?  That means it's beyond the scope of the "slump".
If their goal was addressing power-no-matter-the-cost, then they wouldn't be talking about a slump vs early gen,
they would be talking about increasing their target market above the original peak, rather than reducing a slump following that peak.
You're ignoring some pretty crucial parts of what they're saying,
and then assuming that not spelling out the limitations of their market (price) means they must mean unlimited price/market.
Since you yourself easily show why the latter interpretation doesn't work, perhaps you should adjust your reading of their statement?
Anybody but a literalist who ultra-focuses on some narrow info they personally are heavily invested in doesn't have a problem seeing that.
Actual human communication requires flexibility, not trying to out-lawyer the speaker into proving them wrong for something they didn't want to say.

I think the word "compete" is a bit misconstrued here. It's not about converting PC gamers to console gamers. It's not like there is anyone actually deciding between console and PC and if someone is actually in the position of deciding, the performance will not be the first or most important factor in that decision.

What Sony is doing here is not competing against PC but competing for the attention of PC gamers. For a PC player the drawbacks of a console are clear and for them performance is a big one. PS4 Pro is not made to make them switch to console completely but to entice them to at least try it out and be able to have a console experience that is a lot closer to PC than the OG PS4 is. It's basically a step towards them so they have a chance to experience the great console exclusives without the expensive and exhausting eye cancer treatments afterwards.

That's why the PS4 Pro was a good idea and why it will succeed and will be more enticing to PC players than the OG PS4 ever was.

It's like talking to a wall. You just don't seem to understand the concept of proportions, everything is just black and white.

Why compete with something that is dead? PC gaming has been dying since 1989.

Umm... Its not exactly my problem to interpret what he is saying the right way. Its his job, as the CEO to ensure what he says is interpreted the same way with everyone that reads it which it really doesn't. There are many people that interpret what he said the same way I interpreted it and that is not limited to vgchartz. Otherwise, this thread wouldn't be this long and the only one that would be arguing is me. Its not my job to put words in his sentences that it isn't there. If he really meant to say compete against PCs for that price point or only to shrinken the gap, than he should have just said so but he didn't.

And they didn't say they are aiming to remove the SLUMP and not increase their competitiveness beyond what they had at early gen. They said that "We wanted to keep those people within our eco-system by giving them the very best and very highest [performance quality]. 

So the net result of those thoughts was PlayStation 4 Pro – and, by and large, a graphical approach to game improvement.”

Which, the way I see it means that they are trying to keep the people from upgrading to PC by giving them the very best and very highest performance quailty which they are trying to achieve via PS4Pro and a large graphical approach to game improvement. Where does it say they don't want to increase their competitiveness beyond what they had at early gen?

LOL While doing that Sony opened for the door for Microsoft to 1up them on the way to trying to stop their gamers from jumping ship to PC. There is no stopping that. Ill be picking up the scorpio.

He says:
“I saw some data that really influenced me,” he explained. “It suggested that there’s a dip mid-console lifecycle where the players who want the very best graphical experience will start to migrate to PC, because that’s obviously where it’s to be had.
"We wanted to keep those people within our eco-system by giving them the very best and very highest [performance quality]. So the net result of those thoughts was PlayStation 4 Pro – and, by and large, a graphical approach to game improvement.”

So you want to believe "those people" has nothing do with the mid-cycle dip he discusses? Why does he lead with the dip then?
I mean, as he spells out, this strategy was a result of looking at sales data, seeing a dip mid-console lifecycle.
You want to extract some wording from the context of mid-cycle dip, when the dip in data was exactly the starting point.
"Keeping those people" they lose in the dip means the people they potentially "had" at the start of the gen.
Not attracting people they never had at the start of the gen.    You can't keep what you never had.
Those people were never in their eco-system, and thus would never affect any "dip".

But hey, if it's not your responsibility to want/try to understand the speaker, so you win, I guess.

Or Mr House could have just made what he said more clear and direct instead of leaving his comments so open to interpretations.

I understand what you are the other dude are trying to say. They put the ps4Pro in the position so that upgrading to a PC doesn't seem as big compared to ps4 vs PC. But to me, that's not what House said because its not my job to read between the lines or put the words there which aren't there. He is the CEO of gods sakes, he knows say things that are direct and clear. But he didn't so we are now in this situation.

Dude, where have you been? I haven't been having much arguments since you disappeared behind VGC scene.

There's not that much interesting people to hate on... anyway, gimme your opinion on this whole mid gen refresh debacle.