It’s traditional to farewell a console generation by acknowledging the various experiences, memories and moments we’ve had with said consoles, games and everything in between. And for Luke, his experience of the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X — the first time consoles have dabbled in mid-gen refreshes — soured what would have otherwise been a transformative experience.
I totally get that, and a lot of readers have also agreed with Luke’s take. But I want to offer a slightly different tack today, because I think we actually owe the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X an awful lot of gratitude.
There are plenty of reasons to hate mid-gen refreshes. Like the base PS4 and Xbox One consoles, the mid-gen refreshes ultimately ended up falling short of a lot of their promises. 4K ended up being “sort of 4K that’s not really 4K most of the time”. The experience on those base consoles slowly got…
