Would it make sense for Sony to add an UHD drive in 12 months?

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Mr Puggsly said:

Kerotan said:

They could take a loss but overall the company isn't in rude financial health and every little margin helps.  

They played this one by the book.  Support 4k gaming and streaming.  Basically support the future.  

The console still has blu rays which look exceptional especially in upscaled 4k. The blu ray market is still fighting off the dvd.  The last thing they want to do is start pushing 4k blu rays which are way too expensive,  way too few in number and way too few consumers buying them.

The 4k blu ray market will never be huge.  Sony played a blinder on this one. 

I feel like you're gonna defend them regardless of the position they took on UHD disc support.

More features isn't a bad thing, I'll end on that.

You're right about the defending part. He's already saying in other threads that people shouldn't care about UHD discs anyway because they aren't "real 4K" but upscaled, as if that is a bad thing. But then he says BluRay's look "exceptional" upscaled to 4K and is excited about upscaled 4K gaming. These things with lower quality assets upscaled to 4K are going to be super, and look "exceptional", but a UHD movie on a disc is a waste because it's not "real 4K".

400 million dollars saved by not including the drive... the hoops people will jump through, lol.

 

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