My post was not purely based on the hardware capability, rather a team effort between R* and Sony to ensure the Pro gets the optimisation attention with GTA 6 and leveraging the position Sony have of having the most powerful console to date and the best experience to play GTA 6 at launch considering there is no PC release at launch.
And you don't know anything about R* development and their optimisation so to blanketly imply the Pro can't achieve this is a baseless opinion. When I say the Pro would be a failure, I'm not talking about on a hardware level, rather a brand level to the consumer. Having the most powerful console on the market with one of the best devs in the world not being about to squeeze 60fps? C'mon man, don't make me laugh. If there is no 60fps, it's because R* decided that based on greed for double dipping, not because they couldn't do it.
You can come back and check this post but mark my words, Pro is going to have a 60fps performance mode! This is my opinion based on 35+ years of gaming. Why? Because Sony has a golden ticket to promote GTA 6 as the best experience you can get!
I'm in my 40s been gaming 35+ years, I know how the console works, it's you that doesn't understand what I mean.
If you knew anything about game development, you would know that optimisation is the key. PSSR does somewhat relate to frame rate because you are upscaling an image at a lower resolution to achieve higher/more stable frame rates, that's kind of the purpose of PSSR. Being able to achieve a better image at higher frame rates.. You think the Pro & PSSR was made purely for image quality @ 30fps? LOL
You have no business acumen whatsoever, I was talking about Sony leveraging the Pro with GTA 6.. Do people really not realise that Sony's Pro is the only console you can have the best experience on, with potentially the biggest release in history.. It's a dream position for Sony to market the shit out of Pro with GTA 6.. If people see that the Pro has the best visual quality and performance, it's going to make some people run out and upgrade to a Pro. You can't play it on PC at release, so it makes logical sense that Sony is working with R* to create and squeeze the best they can out of the Pro for their own gain.
Lol, "gaming for 35 years". What an achievement. In the meantime, I have been working as a software developer, including work on several real-time 3d graphics applications, for 25+ years. [this year I have actually worked a lot on optimizations towards different tiers of hardware that even differs more than the difference between Series S and the Pro...]
Optimizations, you say. Care to elaborate why, from a technical perspective, these optimizations would be applied to the Pro version only and not to the Base version? I really want to know what your 35+ years sitting at home and playing games tells you here.
Rendering at lower resolutions [lower than that 1440p indicated by the trailer] doesn't help IF GTA6 is limited by CPU-related work-load [even after optimisations are applied, be it reduction of actors or actor update-rate or simplified BVH structure setup or whatever that needs be done to reduce the CPU workload]. You understand that, do you?
IF GTA6 isn't CPU-limited then any version can be rendered at lower resolutions [we already know that this has to be done for the Series S version] resulting in shorter frame times. The final image won't look as pretty as one upscaled by PSSR (which adds about 2 ms or so to the frame time, btw) but the point still remains, PSSR by it self doesn't improve frame rate.
The Pro version absolutely has to [at least fram Sonys perspective] be the version that offers the best visual quality, yes. Does that mean that it will run at 60 fps while other versions won't? No. You are just assuming that based on a dream of yours, not based on what the Pro offers performance wise relative the Base console.
Most likely PSSR-upscaling will be used in the Pro version to offer better image quality compared to the FSR1-like upscaling used by (as indicated by tge trailer) the Base-version. That's it.
Add some raytracing quality related improvements and the additional performance that the Pro offers has been put to good use.
Your 'business acumen" is laughable btw. It is based on what YOU wish will happen, nothing else.
I'm however worried that Rockstar won't put enough effort into the Pro version, let's hope they have some kind of deal in place, like you talked about.