> i.e. old generation consoles, before they started to make "pro" upgrades.

And before it was realistically possible to port a game to run on multiple consoles without a complete rewrite.

pretty much, over the dozen or so game and rendering engines I made over the decades name mutated from tick to timestep to frame (rate) to refresh rate (hz) to tick again.. it doesn't matter as long as every system is decoupled and rendering is unbounded (if hardware/display combo supports it). This needs thinking from day one. Cool stuff you can do then is determinism, you can do independent timers which go forward, halt, backward in time, different speed multipliers over those (so some things run slower, faster, everything goes slower / faster), etc.