The Hypocrisy and Irony of 4K Blu-ray Exclusion

[NightDragon83]

mjk45 said:

NightDragon83 said:

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.

Actually both the Nvidia "Reality Synthesizer" GPU and Blu-Ray drive cost considerably more than the Cell CPU according to this tear-down report of the launch model PS3's from November 2006...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061117130000.html

$125 for an optical drive is astronomical considering the 360's DVD drive cost only a fraction of that. If the PS3 had launched at say $399 for the standard model it might have been a much different story last gen.