When did you EVER buy a 4K Blu-ray Film?

[Kerotan]

vivster said:
I guess all the people with their expensive 4k HDR TVs are really upset that they can't have a cheap 4k Bluray player in a cheap console. How will they ever be able to get one of those mystical playback devices if they aren't attached to a console?

vivster said:

Soundwave said:

There is a cheap Blu-Ray 4K player ... it's called an XBox One S. Which is something I'm basically being forced into buying now. There's no better player for the price.

So if Sony's goal was to sell more XBox One's ... great job.

 So? You and a dozen other people will now buy an X1 to watch movies on it. I hope Sony doesn't have to file bankruptcy now. Remember when the PS3 was the best selling console since its launch because it was the cheapest bluray player? Yeah, me neither.

How come people are complaining that they have to buy multiple consoles to watch movies but not to actually play games? Where's the outrage that Sony dares to release a console that does not play Microsoft or Nintendo games and that you have to buy additional hardware to play them?

Vivster you win the Internet for today.  Both these comments sum up why this is a storm in a tea cup.  so much sense talked in these posts.  Couldn't have said it better myself. 

 

@acevil that $20 saving per console turns into $400m when you consider Sony will probably sell 20m+ of these.  A big and important saving for Sony. 

 

Sony ain't going to lose any sleep over the small number of consumers they lose as a result of this.  They'll be too busy counting the money the ps4 sales bring in.  That $299 and $399 price is going to go down well with the MA$$ market.