I 100% agree with this statement as well. Just as I would not expect a developer to continue to make big budget games for a PS3/PS4, I do not think that they should cater to decade old computer hardware.
Nor would I consider the “potato” you described as a gaming PC in modern times.
Nor should the expectation of the consumer in a live service game be that their current hardware will be able to run with any quality the game 5 to 10 years from now.
Which brings up another limitation of designing D4 for consoles. What happens in 2-4 years when the PS6 comes out? Will there be a mandatory DLC that upgrades D4 into the future or will it always be locked to the hardware of today?
D3 got left behind, unless you got one with a disc drive, when PS5 released. Does that mean this live service game is dead when the PS6 or 7 releases?
Also, I hadn’t realized until now that D4 was also released on PS4, so I guess major developers still do make games for obsolete systems, which feels even worse. So is it the developers made the game for an 11 year old GPU or a 9 year old console?
If I had a PS5 I’d be annoyed too.
Edit: I found this gem on the Console Discussion forum:
Seems there is a contingent of console players that want MKB and are not super thrilled with cross play either.