Can you speak in a little more detail about exactly what you mean? The Performance Center today, 2015, doesn't really exist the way that most of us here in this forum know it, remember it, or wish that it did.

The Performance Center Smith & Wesson metal semi-auto pistols that we know & love (the S&W Model 952 for just one example) is a hand-built machine that may look like other random S&W pistols but in reality, it is nothing whatsoever like them. The fit, finish, feel, attention to detail, lock-up, trigger, accuracy and every little bit of them are nothing at all like any production gun.

The PC of today is a "name brand" that S&W uses to try and sell modern (polymer) guns and some new production 1911's and revolvers that aren't hand-built as they used to be... today, the PC simply means odd or added "features" that are outside of the production guns.

Goes for the revolvers also. A new PC revolver has a double action trigger pull that isn't as good as the one on my circa-1988 Model 686-3.