Vivster you win the Internet for today.  Both these comments sum up why this is a storm in a tea cup.  so much sense talked in these posts.  Couldn't have said it better myself. 

@acevil that $20 saving per console turns into $400m when you consider Sony will probably sell 20m+ of these.  A big and important saving for Sony. 

Sony ain't going to lose any sleep over the small number of consumers they lose as a result of this.  They'll be too busy counting the money the ps4 sales bring in.  That $299 and $399 price is going to go down well with the MA$$ market. 

A top-end model with the 4K Blu-Ray would have been a nice option to have. May not be everyone's choice, but there's nothing wrong with having that choice.

It is very disappointing for people that were hoping for it and for people who do get them, for me, well I don't even have a 4k TV XDD

I buy them, because it offers the best image money can buy. If the movie is shot and mastered in 4k, like the revenant and Deadpool. But I own a panasonic ub900 which besides a great UHD Blu Ray player also a great CD and Blu ray player.

It is supposed to be Sony's TOP of the line PlayStation, it's supposed to do everything the standard PS4 does but on a much grander scale. That is why people are disappointed. It's essentially more of the same, not too different. Its supposed to be the 4K killer console, but it turns out it is not.

Why would you not offer everything 4K capable in your 4K console?

Exactly. 

You get people all excited and tell them to go buy a 4K TV and then you hype up a machine that's supposed to be your defacto entertainment device for a 4KTV set ... except it can't actually really run any native 4K content. I'm willing to let it slide on the games, but no 4K movies as well ... c'mon. 

The only plus is they didn't have the gall to call it PS4K. That really would've been ridiculous.  

I would probably neve buy it. I do not buy movies anyways. Netflix FTW

We lost quality when transitioning to digital. IMAX is a big example, they replaced the high quality 70mm films with digital copies and smaller venues, the actual single reason why we have IMAX theaters everywhere now.

Modern films are mostly 2K or, even when filmed in higher resolutions they use 2K DIs in the majority of cases: http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/ultra-hd-not-always-4k/. That's currently the biggest issue.

That doesn't change the source material. A 35mm print is more than what 4K can handle, and even modern digital films ... more than a few are shot at 4K digital. 

I'd say actually 2K native films are the minority of any studio's film catalog. By far. 

I don't have a 4KTV or a 4K Blu-ray player... so I haven't bought any 4K Blu-rays yet.

If PS4 Pro had supported it, it would probably have been a catalyst for me to look at getting into the format (and a new TV).

But can't say I'm overly bothered it doesn't support it. PS4 Pro Slim can add it in 2017.