Hi I am new here, though I have been lurking around the forums. Mostly because I've been hanging around gaf mostly, and I do find it odd a site based on collecting isn't a bit more popular but it's a nice community here.
Anyway, this whole Idea of iterative consoles such as the PS4k and anyone else who jumps in on it, seems to me to be a thorn for us collectors. The vast majority of sales of a set of iterative consoles would be the first edition. The next upgraded until they hit the real next generation will all be stronger but sell less, with games made with them in mind hitting performance (and I assume eventually some games just won't run at all on the original.)
This means to me that say I want to collect PS4 games, but the PS4 3 just finished up and the PS5 is about to come out? It would be crazy for me to buy the original model, and have bad performance or no performance. So I'd have to buy the latest editions that sold least, and of course, you know how Amazon/Ebay sellers get with limited quantities even if there's still plenty, raise those prices high high high in the sky.
Then of course there are the games, because the newere games will sell but of course being made for the new generation of iterative consoles, they will of course raise in price as well since the console itself has sold less. So the software, despite being newer will also sell less. But this doesn't just apply to the latest version., all versions after the original will have the same issue.
In the end I just think it's a bad idea. Not to mention I'm not even sure it'll work, it'll still sales from the original, compete with shelf space, compete with manufacturing, and you'll have to deal with these retail workers who'll be struggling to explain what's going on.