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osed125 on 23 August 2012

If this is true it will cost like $800 at launch...



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Euphoria14 on 23 August 2012
happydolphin said:
Euphoria14 said:
What is funny is that when PS3 came out everyone said "It's too early. HDTV are too expensive."

Look how that turned out.


Now it's "It's too early. UHDTV are too expensive."

PS4 won't be releasing for at least another 12-18 months. So at some point within the first 2-3 years of PS4 lifetime those UHDTV prices will drop dramatically.


No idea how this is being spun as a negative, let alone people thinking this will result in a $400-$600 console, lol.

It doesn't work that way. It was a different time with a different readiness for adoption. Look what happened to 3D?

Come on the trend is not as simple as you lay it out man.

It's already been said that adoption of BD was sluggish at best, so to much lesser extent 4k.

3DTV and 4K are not the same. It is the Smart TVs that will be pushing the 4K.

 

It also isn't as dire as you all make it out to be. Adding 4K support isn't going to jump costs dramatically, expecially since it is going to be used for BD movies. Many PC graphic cards can already push 4K resolution. 1080p isn't what made PS3 so expensive, you know that right?

This is being blown way out of proportion.



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leatherhat on 23 August 2012

There are already blu ray players that display 4k. Adding this to the ps4 isn't going to increase cost. And these sets will probably be available at a decent price within 7 years, which will definitely be within the ps4's life span.



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Conegamer on 23 August 2012

Bad move, Sony. The cost implications will likely be great, and it'll likely be at least another 10 or so years before its viable for most people.



 

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Euphoria14 on 23 August 2012
kowenicki said:
Euphoria14 said:
What is funny is that when PS3 came out everyone said "It's too early. HDTV are too expensive."

Look how that turned out.


Now it's "It's too early. UHDTV are too expensive."

PS4 won't be releasing for at least another 12-18 months. So at some point within the first 2-3 years of PS4 lifetime those UHDTV prices will drop dramatically.


No idea how this is being spun as a negative, let alone people thinking this will result in a $400-$600 console, lol.


No they didnt.  They might have said it when the 360 came out.

I'd had a 360 and a HDTV for almost a year whent the PS3 came out...

I can tell you that it wasn't the 360 camp that said it.

I read all the time about how HDTV wasn't going to have fast enough of an adoption rate to justify making games in HD. It was a big defense point for the Wii lacking it.

 

I think it would be dumb to have BluRay in a console and have it lack 4K playback when 4K movies will no doubt be releasing on BD within the next year or so.

Would you be shocked if the 720 had 4K video playback? It is going to use BD right?

 

As long as it is for video only there is really no issue here.



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Munkeh111 on 23 August 2012
Conegamer said:
Bad move, Sony. The cost implications will likely be great, and it'll likely be at least another 10 or so years before its viable for most people.

Why will the cost implications be great? If they don't use it for gaming, it will be fine, if they do, it will be absurd



Conegamer on 23 August 2012
Munkeh111 said:
Conegamer said:
Bad move, Sony. The cost implications will likely be great, and it'll likely be at least another 10 or so years before its viable for most people.

Why will the cost implications be great? If they don't use it for gaming, it will be fine, if they do, it will be absurd

It's a gaming console. If they include it, they'll use it for games.



 

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Euphoria14 on 23 August 2012
Conegamer said:
Munkeh111 said:
Conegamer said:
Bad move, Sony. The cost implications will likely be great, and it'll likely be at least another 10 or so years before its viable for most people.

Why will the cost implications be great? If they don't use it for gaming, it will be fine, if they do, it will be absurd

It's a gaming console. If they include it, they'll use it for games.

Says who?

Playstation, just like XBox are more than just gaming consoles. They are living room media hubs.



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happydolphin on 23 August 2012
Euphoria14 said:

3DTV and 4K are not the same. It is the Smart TVs that will be pushing the 4K.

 

It also isn't as dire as you all make it out to be. Adding 4K support isn't going to jump costs dramatically, expecially since it is going to be used for BD movies. Many PC graphic cards can already push 4K resolution. 1080p isn't what made PS3 so expensive, you know that right?

This is being blown way out of proportion.

I know that yeah. These are two different things we're talking about.

1) Adoption rates.

2) Cost in BOM.

For 1, it's what we were talking about earlier. I don't think there is interest for 4K at this stage in the market, it's too soon after HD.

For 2, I went over that with pezus, and I said that as long as it attracts the cutting-edge audience at a price that doesn't alienate the regular audience due to overhead costs, it's fine.



happydolphin on 23 August 2012
leatherhat said:
There are already blu ray players that display 4k. Adding this to the ps4 isn't going to increase cost. And these sets will probably be available at a decent price within 7 years, which will definitely be within the ps4's life span.

How do you know, what numbers are you using?