Whether they could have run on Wii U or not is ultimately immaterial though, because the simple fact of the matter is that they didn't, therefore the new hardware justified its existence with plenty of games available nowhere else.

Again though, Switch/Wii U is not a good example of this phenomenon because there's not a big power leap there due to the change in form factor.

The reason for a hardware to exist is to play games, whether or not they are available elsewhere doesn't really mean a thing. If the library is there, the console justified its existence. What is pointless is a console with small library, like a PS Vita or a Wii U

Wii U to Switch is the good example to prove there is a loophole in your logic. You spent 300 USD to get a console that was running Wii U games in Nintendo Switch cards, exactly what you just said would piss you off if you were a PS4 owner

The absolute majority of developers don't even have money to create games to take full advantage of PS5 specs anyway, namely almost every Japanese developer 

I guess according to console owners they should stop releasing their games on PS5, since their games are still using PS4 graphics

No, I spent $300 to play Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, and Xenoblade 2. If I could play those on my Wii U, then I wouldn't have bought my Switch.

The point is those games are just as new experiences as Zelda BOTW which is a cross gen game. A new game is a new experience, period. The fact they are released in two different consoles do not change that single fact

It's perfectly fine if you think you should not buy new consoles if the older console can play most of its games, it's your money after all. which doesn't make sense is to be unsatisfied and annoyed because developers decided they want more people (majority of them who can't afford buying consoles at launch) playing their games, oh the horror! 

I didn't buy a Switch to play BOTW, I played that on my Wii U.

We're just gonna have to disagree on this one, especially as we're way off topic.

To bring it back to PS5 Pro, they're clearly aiming at wealthy tech enthusiasts with this one, and I have to wonder whether most folks with who care that much about graphics and have that much disposable income wouldn't just have a gaming PC instead.

They just announced a $700 console with no disc drive.. does that seem to you that they are worried about PC in any way?

Here's one ;)

You forget convenience. Gaming PC is great, just not very convenient. If I could buy a gaming PC that requires as little 'work' as turning a console on, with all games guaranteed to run hassle free, I would put one next to the TV.

What I want from gaming is, turn on console, turn on VR headset, 30 seconds later be in the game. No distractions. If a Pro can enhance that experience, why not. A gaming PC can't.

PS5 Pro is aimed at lazy people ;) Or rather for those who don't want to spend time on the 'engine' the PC, want to spend all their available time on gaming.

Could it be though? When those games I've mentioned released, you could easily say they are not from PS360 era...for this gen, we're 4 years in, and very few games have that effect.

Nothing is slow, I am still playing 7th gen all the time last few years, from discs too, the only slower thing is the loading times but they are still fine, it's not like waiting 5 minutes for something, it is not bothering me, however this is because of the HDD vs SSD, not because of the blu ray player reading slowly. I am happy with it even on the 360 where is the DVD you can just install the game once and you the drive does not need to work after that.

Patches are better in the sense that you don't need to replace the old one when a few new get released as you said, however patched became bigger and bigger and you need to wait more time for downloading and installing them. I used XB1 and PS4 all the time just until a year ago, and I know how many times I needed to download patches and wait for a size of a 7th gen game to download and install. On the PS5 and XBSX, maybe the install time is less because of the SSD but the big patches are still there. About the space I don't have a problem, I upgraded my PS3 with 500GB back in 2015.

The ruining gaming and releasing broken games is not the 7th gen fault, it's the developers and companies that makes games's fault. They saw opportunity and took it. They are to blame, not the generation or the consoles. The multiplayer also is not a bad thing, if you maintain it within some frames, just like it was till the end of the 7th gen, it was primary single player, it was like 80% of the game single player and 20% multiplayer for the most games. I've had many fun times online on games like call of duty and GTA IV where I enjoyed the single player very much and the multiplayer as well, however they began to put it more and more, and later in 8th gen removing single player completely and putting multiplayer only, adding micro transactions too, so maybe you have to blame 8th gen not 7th for this. The real one to blame here is again the people behind those decisions, not the consoles themselves. The 7th gen was in fact the last real generation where you could play and having what to play from the couch with friends, There were many games that you could play with a friend on 1 console. The drought of such games began on the next, 8th gen. The paid online was only for Xbox, and it began in the 6th gen, so stop searching for a things to blame the 7th gen, all the things have started from other periods than the 7th gen, and the real one to blame is not the generation but the corporate people that took those decisions. They would take them no matter what generation of consoles we are in.

Oh I don't know. I think for games specifically made for the PS3, 720p 950 TVL looks pretty great! 

Edit: My pic was too glorious for VGChartz servers. Had to make it smaller lol.