I literally cannot see the “gap” in appearance between PS4’s best-looking games and what are considered the top games in the PC market. All the PS5 has done for me is allow for extras like letting them run at 60fps.

When given comparison videos like Batman: Arkham City (PS3, 2011) to Gotham Knights (PS4/PS5, 2022), the level of detail seems to have shifted in bad ways; suggesting most of the new power pushed into these consoles has gone to supporting developer inefficiency. We already know the best of the PS5 can produce some extremely detailed environments, and I really cannot imagine many gamers nitpicking the seams out of them - especially these days where people feel satisfied by digetic environments like Minecraft or Fortnite. So, it feels more like a PS5 Pro or PS6 would go towards making players pay more towards stronger hardware just to account for lack of developer optimization. It does not feel hard to imagine future releases coming out at 25fps, and if players complain about it, only getting the response “Buy a PS5 Pro if it bothers you.”

That’s my explanation for the downvotes. It’s a bit of a visceral reaction to a presumptive sentence, like “Why haven’t you stopped hitting your wife?” It’d be more neutral to ask “Do we need a PS5 Pro?” and my answer would be an immediate No.