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The best move by Microsoft and Sony has been...

future proof in the meaning that the user can choose to change the GPU to remain on the top of the performance curve ... or take time while continuing to play while reducing detail. The PC will never see a generational leap that cuts part of the population. What happens every generation in the world of consoles (until now)population.

A hard cut like what consoles do has its pros and cons.

Some console games simply wouldn't have been possible to do on PC because there would have been no way for the dev to be able to guarantee the hardware feature was present for every owner of the hardware.

The console hard cut ostensibly has its merits today, because with the eye-wateringly obscene prices of PC GPUs, consoles are the only reason games are being made targeting high-end hardware. Without them, the rate of progression of graphics tech in games would be much slower.
 
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