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Guitarguy on 11 September 2016
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aLkaLiNE said:
Guitarguy said:

I wrote this before but I think Sony signed an exclusive deal with Netflix(ie Netflix paid them alot of money) to funnel users to the format. Sony also saved themselves money by not installing a native UHD player(whether the standard blu ray drive can be converted into an UHD player via firmware is yet to be seen) so in Sony's eyes it was win-win. Now I have no proof to back this up at all, just a thought. They were plugging Netflix during the reveal and a Netflix executive revealed a 4k variant of the PS4 some years back:

https://gamerant.com/netflix-ps4-xbox-one-4k-release/

I think there is something more at play here....

Great minds think alike :P I also suggested a Netflix deal in the very first post I initially made about the potential for a UHD upgrade and why Sony might potentially just have to keep quiet until the contract is up (it was one of the first Ps4Pro threads we had after revea) I also mentioned that I wanted to make a thread predicting UHD will come via firmware, and now everyone's discussing this as a possibility. I have planted the seeds of doubt lol. Or it's just coincidence and no one noticed, idk 

I see no reason for Sony to willfully negate to include an UHD player at all. The cost is insignificant considering the is a standard blu ray drive in it already and they went to the added expense of adding an additional USB port in the rear and keeping the light bar/strip and optical port(whilst absent in the Slim possibly due to space limitations). Sony were all over DVD for the PS2 and all over Blu Ray for the PS3 and it's not like they cheaped out on the OG PS4 with expensive capacitive buttons(later revised to physical) a light bar and Sony themed screws for the internal hard drive tray.