I have played through CP2077 with 40, 30 and 25 fps. A child doesn't care if Zelda runs with low FPS.
The only thing I value is a consistent stream of frames on a console.
The only thing I value is a consistent stream of frames on a console.
From PS5 Pro reveal https://youtu.be/X24BzyzQQ-8?t=172
I wonder if players of single player action/adventure games make the same choice. Those games are played less (can be finished in 10-30 hours instead of endlessly) so the statistics might be skewed to favor performance mode.
Anecdotally, I do. Because modern displays are horrible blurry messes at lower framerates. I don't care about my input latency, I care about my image not being a smear every time the camera viewport moves.
I'm sure it would have been even more successful with modern 60 FPS, but that difference couldn't have been very large, because other 60 FPS games did exist back then as well, mostly without being nearly as popular.