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

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Mr Puggsly said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

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.

Seriously? How would it look if Sony released a fourth console revision just to add UHD support when X1 S was doing it over a year prior at a lower price.

The backlash would be big and it would also make Sony look reactive, something they claim they arent about.

Again, at this rate it could make sense for some PS4 Pro Slim 2 or 3 years from now. Thats the only way they can do it without looking bad

There's a lot of talk about big backlash, but nobody really knows that.  Was there backlash when Xbox 360 added a HDMI port?  Backlash over adding new features to consoles is unproven.  Heck, Microsoft  practically discontinued Kinect games support 1.5 years after console launch.  The backlash from people that paid $100 for the thing should be huge... but nope.  No real backlash.

Nope, it's pretty easy to spin the addition of a non-essential upgrade: add the upgrade for a nominal price increase so everyone feels like they're getting more for more, and then later drop the price of the "upgraded" model to the original while discontinuing the former.