Cartridges or optical discs?

[dharh]

Pemalite said:

dharh said:

If SONY wanted to they could upgrade the firmware to make it so.  Although SONY and Philips are joint creators of the CD-DA format I believe SONY would have to pay Philips a certain amount per PS4 out there to do this (its probably pennies per though), though I am no expert.  However, I suspect the real reason for not wasting time paying for licensing and put time into making the software is that Audio CD's are at this point antiquated to the point that _new_ hardware is not necessary.  Music Streaming has almost completely taken over.

Do you have a link for this claim? 

Which claim exactly? You didn't highlight what you are asking a link for.  If you mean a firmware update to play previous PS games I should think it's obvious.

Also I said I _suspect_.  As in I don't actually know, but I have a theory as to why SONY doesn't spend the time and effort to allow old PS discs to run on the PS4.  Here's another.  Money.

When old games are sold on the PS Store they aren't completely redone games made for the PS4, they are merely running the games inside an emulation layer which runs on the normal PS4 hardware.  In doing this for games they don't own themselves SONY negotiates individually with game developers, or maybe often the developers approach SONY themselves, to hash out contracts to allow this.  And more money is made.