Ascended_Saiyan3 said:
Squilliam said:
he reason why I am so hesitant to consider BR playback as a viable option for some future consoles are the licencing fees. People think that its terrible that consumers buy a PS3 to play BR, I think its even more terrible for Sony if they buy it and ignore BR. If we consider the current fee of $9.50 per player, if only 10% of people buying a PS3 actually use that capability for example then the cost per console of those 10% would be $95 and they would be better off enabling playback using something like a remote and dropping the price by $10 -> See wireless networking argument 107 Xbox 360.
Its something they have to pay per console whether its used or not, so going forward into the future if fewer consoles are expected to be used for this functionality then I would expect that even if BR players are inside the next Xbox that people will have to pay extra for a remote to enable the functionality. This is especially true if the next generation consoles are designed even more to be internet media hubs rather than designed to play locally stored optical media.
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Really? You, the consumer, is worried about licensing fees? That is awfully strange. It sounds like a terrible excuse to me. BD players prices It's, basically, written in stone that the PS4 WILL have BD playback. Unless MS wants to have some serious issues next-gen, their next console will have a BD drive as well. At that point, it would make NO sense not to build in BD playback. It's that simple.
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@Werekitten, got it.
Microsoft has already proved their willingness to not enable basic features out of the box to keep the base price SKU lower. Its not that hard to imagine that even having a BR drive, they will charge $10 or so to actually play the discs.
