| Rafie said: Wow you sure do know a lot about this UHD blu ray business. I'm not questioning your knowledge on it. I was just wondering if Sony would have put a cheaper option for a UHD drive and decided to patch in the availibility to work. If this isn't possible because they would have simply charged for the Pro, then I won't contest anything. My knowledge on this minimal to nothing. So don't mind me. :-p |
Thats ok.
Sony simply opted to not do it. For sony and MS, With the amount of hardware the order from OEMs the differemce between a bluray drive and a UHD drive cant possibly be more than $15.
Sony simy gauaged how everyone has been using the existing PS4s, and probably noticed that of that 40M+ install base a significantly small number of them were actually watching Blu-ray movie discs on their consoles (yes they can tell as long as your console is connected). So they felt it was a feature that wasn't worth the extra $10-$15 in manufacturing costs.
Something like that is more important to MS cause being that they have been losing the race on their consoles merits as a gaming console they have to come up with as many ways as possible to add value to their console and differentiate themselves from Sony.
And there is no "cheaper" option for UHD. You either put in the hardware or not. And if they were going that route, there won't be any need to patch anything in later cause we already have a $300 console with a UHD working drive in the XB1. It was purely a design choice.
And don't let the internet fool you. The minority on the internet is always the loudest. Ever wondered how we have suddenly heard more about UHD Blu-ray in the last 4 weeks than we have since the Blu-ray format was even created?
