Why does PS4 Pro not have an option for 60fps?

[GOWTLOZ]

Hiku said:

GOWTLOZ said:

PS4 Pro was revealed to support 4K and HDR. That's awesome and its quite an upgrade over PS4 but why is there not an option to play games at 60fps? With PS4 Pro's power 1080p60fps is possible on all current gen games and as most people still don't have 4K TV's it would be more of a selling point to have games at 1080p60fps with HDR and better graphical settings.

I don't have a 4K television and I would have considered it if it supported better graphics and framerate rather than a higher resolution.

It would also be better if all Sony published games so far on PS4 had graphical upgrades on Pro, as so far not all seem to have that.

PS4 Pro can't inherently have an option to magically play games in 60fps. That's simply in the developers hands. The devs can create a horribly optimized game that runs at 1fps, that even the best PC out there can't run at 60fps, if they wanted to.
What Pro does is offer developers the opportunity to take advantage of the Pro specs, for a separate settings. A "Pro setting".
With this developers can have their games run at 60fps, if possible, and if they chose to focus on that. They can also use that setting for other things. Such as higher resolution, better effects, etc.

The only way a 60 fps mode would be possible, is if Sony forced every developer to optimize their games to run at 60fps for the PS4 Pro, but that would be a very unresonable thing to do.

Some games will run at a higher framerate. Others will simply run at a more stable/locked framerate. It depends on how demanding the game is and how well the developers manage/chose to optimize it.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to make 60fps required on every Pro game. Devs can just have it as an optional setting in their games with less graphical effects. It would make Pro more viable for many gamers.