Cost of UHD Blu Ray - Is MS subsidizing Xbone S, or is Sony just milking it?

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Qwark said:

mjk45 said:

What confuses me is the fact that some people have stated that the PS4 bluray, (not sure about the Xbox One) is one that can be upgraded to UHD by way of a firmware upgrade , is this true ? , because if it is it opens up a whole new can of worms. 

No it can't be updated via a firmware update. UHD uses 33gb per layer, while regular blu ray only uses 25gb per layer. The drives themselves are different, the best a PS4 could do is upscaling rregular blu ray discs to 4k. Like many players of €200- do. 

Okay, so UHD has more gb per layer. What's your point?  They also have different capacity DVDs that can be read by the same DVD lasers (DVD-5, DVD-9).  Still based on the same technology and we have retro bluray drives that are patch able to UHD. There is no supporting evidence I've ever seen up to this point that suggests the PS4 disc reader is not patchable for 4K content.

 

Its hard to state something as a fact without giving yourself some credence, Sony themselves haven't denied it, they tip toed around the subject which to me means there's other factors at play. If it wasn't possible, I imagine they'd be inclined to admit that now or at some point in the very near future given the backlash.