Comment by theshackleford

> by the end of a console lifecycle I can still count on developers targeting it

And I can count on those games still being playable on my six year old hardware because they are in fact developed for 6 year old hardware.

> PC performance for 6+ year hardware is guaranteed to suck

For new titles at maximum graphics level sure. For new titles at the kind of fidelity six year old consoles are putting out? Nah. You just drop your settings from "ULTIMATE MAXIMUM HYPER FOR NEWEST GPUS ONLY" to "the same low to medium at best settings the consoles are running" and off you go.