How will Sony fans react if PS4 is not the most powerful Next Gen console?

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bananaking21 said:

i remember reading that the gamepad of the wiiU costs an equivalent of about 150$ in japan. so it does add money to each console sold. also i think that the wiiU's disk drive would cost more than a blueray drive because bluerays are every where and they have been making them for years, but wiiu's drive was custom made by nintendo and made specifically for the console.

Those 150$ were the retail price, not the actual manufacturing cost of the gamepad, and I have the suspicion that it's priced higher than usual to demotivate people from buying it. Remember that they only added the ability to use a 2nd gamepad because of the reaction at E3 2011, and so far no game uses it.

About the optical drive, I agree that it will probably cost more than a standard bluray one, but given that it's basically a bluray drive without the capability to play movies and the fact that they don't have to pay royalties for movie playback, I would say that the cost is about the same.

About the question in the OP, as some said, some will accept it, others will deny/ignore it and some will jump to Msoft.