All of that was true though, PS3 did try to do 'everything' and it was a good value.  It was my Blu-Ray player.  That doesn't mean it turned out the best business strategy for Sony.

PS3 could do 'everything', and it struggled for years to catch up to Xbox 360 in sales, lost billions, and lost PlayStation's position as Sony's most profitable business.

PS4 focused on gaming, and beat Xbox One by almost 2:1 life to date sales, making Sony's entertainment divison the top division once again.

That's a good change of strategy for them.

The Wii U focuses on gaming. The PS4 and XBO do much more than just gaming.

PS4, XBO and Wii U all have apps to various extents.  Apps are a commodity these days; it costs $35 to get a HDMI media stick.  Only XBO really emphasized it's non gaming aspects to much extent.

you can watch blu-ray,people must mean ultra when complaining

i don't get the fuss,buy an xbox-s or scorpio when it comes out,sony just nailed gen 8 with the ps4 & ps4pro plus we have psvr with the pro,it all sounds good for gaming to me

ps4 sales will be well over 50m by the time scorpio hits the shops,don't see the problem unless it is fanboy issues

at least when the scorpio arrives it keeps up the tradition where the most powerful console never wins the gen ,have to wait until gen 9 to see if that continues

Changing their strategy from PS3 days has been good business for them, has it not?

Sony's TV division almost went belly up... so who knows if that's their focus.  These days promoting 4K benefits Samsung and LG more than Sony.

Right, and that $10 difference is consumer prices, when UHD is currently a niche market (i.e. highest profit difference).
Sony will have volume discounts and OEM prices (actually, self-production costs), so this is <$5 at most.
If they use their own drives, they can benefit their economies of scale by PS4 NEO pushing UHD drive adoption.
That "guaranteed" production lot can enable larger scale production efficiency, making their standalone UHD drives more competitive.
And actually, it seems like a BDXL/4k drive would have gaming benefits since it would allow larger game media,
or alternately, simply repetition/strategic location of data to facilitate faster loading and seek times from drive.

It does feel sad that people are reflexively trying to defend the decision, invariably with the baseless claim that 4k drive would "cost alot".
if the tables were switched and MS was "lacking" while Sony was including 4k drives, I'm sure they wouldn't be pushing the same line.
Anybody can search my post history to see I'm not a MS fan, and am supportive of Playstation overall, but that does not mean a spade isn't called a spade.

PS4 was hundred+ more than the market would bear for gaming console.
Price difference for BDXL/4k drive is ~$10 for single units, large batch OEM/self-production cost would be half of that.
Don't really see the basis for comparison there.  Sony doesn't need to profit from broader BD4k/TV market to do this, MS certainly doesn't.

All Sony has been doing the last year is pushing their streaming crap in commercials on TV. Uncharted 4 is the only game related commercial I have seen from them this year. Also PlayStation has always been a Entertainment system, not a video game console. Their words.

I din't know UHD BR was such a big deal. They may add it for the slim version although TBH slim version are always cheaper. PS3 was 100$ more expensive due to BR for that time. I think that helped 360 a lot during initial release and really did not matter much during that gen. Here I guess they are saving some 50$ may be. I think this is worth the risk. If they could get it for 400$ they would have had it.

THIS!

The same people that praise 4K gaming are defending Sony for not supporting 4k BluRays, because nobody has a 4K TV anyway.

If I pay an extra $400 for my upgraded console, I want the real deal. The Pro looks half baked right now, because MS told us months ago, they will bring a mich more powerful machine to the market next year.