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cloud1161 on 22 February 2013

One of my co-workers was trying to tell me and a few others that the PS4 will be strictly digital based and will not accept discs.  I was under the impression that the PS4 would take Blu-Ray discs.  The person is a gung-ho XBox fan so it would not surprise me if he was just trying to turn us off from the PS4.  He was also saying that the  XBox 720 would take Blu Rays but to my knowledge the 720 hasn't even been announced yet.  He was also trying to say that when the 720 is released that Microsoft's stock would triple.  Now I don't know much about economics, but that seems high to me.  He was trying to convince us to buy stock MS stock to turn a profit when the 720 is released.  I think he was just in denial that the PS4 announcement was actually pretty good and he was just doing some major hating because he does like to talk badly about the PS3.  I just want to note I am not trying to hate on all XBox fans.  I simply want to find out if I am the uninformed one or if he is because I like to think I keep up to date with these sorts of things.



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Lafiel on 22 February 2013

PS4 uses BR discs, the official specs say so

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221a_e.pdf



Turkish on 22 February 2013

Sony released pdf docs about ps4 specs, ps4 has a bluray 6x drive, ps3 had 2x.



Train wreck on 22 February 2013

Microsoft stock tripling from current levels would make it the biggest in the world marketcap wise. There is no amount of growth that their new console can bring that would cause that kind of rise.

Sony's PS4 has a 6x Blu Ray player, the system will not play regular CDs

Ultr on 22 February 2013

PS4 is blu-ray based, Yoshida said that in an interview

And Xbox is not that big within Microsoft, stock will not even double, it wont change anything.

your co-worker is just a fan... he should back it up with facts...



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hatmoza on 22 February 2013

Print out the specs and tell your friends to frikkin read 'em!



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Mohnstrudel on 22 February 2013
hatmoza said:
Print out the specs and tell your friends to frikkin read 'em!


He will probably say those are fake
And he will probably say Microsoft invented BluRay and just borrowed them to Sony to give them something good to compete with the mighty 360*g*
Oh and Bungie sucks now of course too!



KHlover on 22 February 2013
cloud1161 said:

One of my co-workers was trying to tell me and a few others that the PS4 will be strictly digital based and will not accept discs.  I was under the impression that the PS4 would take Blu-Ray discs.  The person is a gung-ho XBox fan so it would not surprise me if he was just trying to turn us off from the PS4.  He was also saying that the  XBox 720 would take Blu Rays but to my knowledge the 720 hasn't even been announced yet.  He was also trying to say that when the 720 is released that Microsoft's stock would triple.  Now I don't know much about economics, but that seems high to me.  He was trying to convince us to buy stock MS stock to turn a profit when the 720 is released.  I think he was just in denial that the PS4 announcement was actually pretty good and he was just doing some major hating because he does like to talk badly about the PS3.  I just want to note I am not trying to hate on all XBox fans.  I simply want to find out if I am the uninformed one or if he is because I like to think I keep up to date with these sorts of things.

1. PS4 will use BluRay disks
2. Did you see what happened to Sony's share directly after the announcement? It fell. Also, the gaming division is not big enough to triple the value of MS stock (That would be an all-time high for Microsoft, change the zoom to "all" to see it)

Your coworker is just spiiting bullshit.



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cloud1161 on 22 February 2013

Thanks guys. Now I know that I am not going completely crazy. He really is a nice guy, he just likes to bull shit about these sorts of things.



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MoHasanie on 22 February 2013

Um, MS's stock will definitely not triple.
And, MS is already very profitable, but only a small part of its profits are made from the entertainment division.



    

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