Seems to me you have 2 choices

Buy next gen at a cost of 300+ with best quality games in years 2-5 but only look good at 30fps and cant handle extra bells/whistles and no mods

Then for a pc build that can handle say witcher3 or the next big bethesda game you are looking at building your own at a cost of 1300+ at discount stores etc

Seems like there could be a market for a 600 gaming console?

> Seems like there could be a market for a 600 gaming console? <

If you put it that way...yeah, the Alienware Alpha - similar to an PS4/XBOX 1 gaming box.

Eh. The middle ground is a PC built lower-end. Mine was 800 @ discount stores when I built it, and runs games quite nicely.

And remember the current consoles were more at launch (and previous gen was 5-600 at launch).

A bigger reason to not want another, more expensive, level of consoles in between would be yet more versions of games to be producing. Clutter the shelves, confuse customers, increases dev expenses..... nah,

Only if you build from scratch, or your current PC is so outdated that you can't upgrade it. For instance, on my old PC, all I needed to run Skyrim at max-quality (no Hi-Def pack) was a $300 graphics card. Nothing else was current/new.

yep, super large pc screen and an xbox controller with a vibrating chair with a built-in alarm clock.