i really dont understand this kind of dismissal of 60 fps modes just because they arent locked. none of the cod games last gen had a locked 60 fps and yet everyone considered them 60 fps games and used that to shit on the battlefield games. this gen battlefield games targeted 60 fps and took that marketing point away from cod. they never hit 60 fps on a consistent basis. but they were good enough to be considered 60 fps. i am playing control on my rtx 2080 right now and it struggles to hold 60 fps when shit starts flying around.
bottomline is that both sotc and gow had dedicated 60 fps modes. dismissing them just because they arent locked is just silly. saying sony doesnt make it a priority when sony has three games with dedicated 60 fps modes on their midgen refresh is insane especially when considering the fact that gears 5 is literally the only x exclusive that has a 60 fps mode when the base game doesnt.
there is zero doubt that the gears 5 60 fps native 4k presentation is in a league of its own. despite the dynamic resolution, it hits native 4k 60 fps which is 4x the resolution despite being only 1.4x more powerful than the pro gpu. its a testament to the x's hardware design which wasnt bottlenecked by the memory bandwidth like the pro is. its a testament to the design philosophy and engineering work at coalition to make that happen. its an amazing technological achievement.
that said, you guys dont have to put down the work sony devs have done just to big up the accomplishments of your favorite games. i have platinumed gow and beat all valkyries on silky smooth 60 fps mode, did all nilfheim and musphelheim trials for over a hundred hours with zero slowdowns, did all the hard trials in sotc at a smooth 60 fps and beat the game 4 times in a row to get all the combat trophies. they are 60 fps modes, through and through.
My point is that a locked (or near locked) 60fps is not the same thing as what is nothing more than an uncapped framerate toggle. One actually is spending most of its time at 60fps, the other just allows you to see all the lost frames above 30fps that otherwise wouldn't be rendered due to the cap.
There is a huge difference between a game that spends 99% of its time at 60fps, and a game that is constantly fluctuating between 30-60fps. The former requires a great deal of work and optimisation, the latter is simply a case of disabling the 30fps cap.
Every 30fps game could easily give you the option to disable the 30fps cap on consoles, that doesn't make it a "60fps mode". Indeed God of War doesn't even call it a "60fps mode". Same for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Same for Gears 4. SotC Remake is a different deal, because it really does spend the vast majority of its time at a locked 60fps in 1080p mode.
What makes a game 60fps is how much of the time it actually sticks to that framerate.
As for your comment about Control, I also have a 2080Ti. And yes, if everything is on max, then it doesn't run at 60fps. But then I wouldn't say it does! Because it doesn't. But it does if you use DLSS at 1080p, or at 1440p and drop the RTX settings to Medium. But that's besides the point.
