The Hypocrisy and Irony of 4K Blu-ray Exclusion

[mjk45]

NightDragon83 said:

Soundwave said:

There's lots of ironies and hypocrisies like for example Sony being the one that touted the Playstation brand as being the central hub for games AND movies, etc. now suddenly acting like Nintendo during the GameCube era when Nintendo was given a lot of grief back then for being "game focused". It's also ironic to spend an hour talking up 4KTV and then release a console that doesn't really do native 4K for games or movies. 

And so on and so on.

To be honest who cares if Sony is criticized. Why does it bother some people so much? Microsoft and Nintendo take more than their fair share of criticism all the time, Sony is not exempt from making poor decisions. It happens. Let people vent, not everyone has to love every decision they make. They are just another company.

If the situation was reversed and Sony was making the Scorpio and MS was making the XBox Pro with no 4K UHD support and no native 4K, you can bet Microsoft would be getting blasted for it with lots of "wait for Playstation Scorpio, MS dun goofed again!". Is it the end of the world? No. Should Sony be exempt from any kind of criticism no matter what? That's equally a no.

I was just going to bring that point up about Sony fans declaring the PlayStation platform is all about "focusing on the games" this gen as a knock towards M$, when Nintendo has basically been all about the games since day 1 and yet they got all kinds of crap for not including DVD movie playback with the GC, which of course was a big reason (if not THE reason) why the PS2 was so successful early on: being a relatively affordable DVD player at a time when standalone DVD players cost $300 and up.

There's nothing hypocritical about people criticizing Sony's decision to go with the expensive Blu-Ray technology at the beginning of last gen which ballooned the PS3's cost to $500-$600 and cost them their dominance in the console market, while praising M$'s decision to include 4k Blu-Ray playback & 4k streaming in their console at an affordable $299 price point today.  The PS4 was rightfully praised for being more powerful than the X1 while doing pretty much everything the X1 does at a lower price point which made it the clear frontrunner this gen, and Sony fans haven't stopped gloating and rubbing everyone else's face in the mud since.

 Blu-Ray wasn't the only factor in the PS3's price point, the cell had an equal if not greatershare in the cost.