Haha, I have found all this funny. I swear i never knew this many people cared about watching movies on their gaming consoles until just this past week. Even when MS added it to the XB1s it wasn't made a big deal cause then everyone just kinda assumed that Sony would too.

Now? it's the hottest item to have in a console.

Anyways my take on this is that MS will do and is trying to do anything to add value to their console. Sony is the market leader after all. I am really just surprised that so many are talking this all up to mean more than it is.

The really sad thing is, there are those that are up in arms about this that will never buy a 4k Blu-ray....

MS did it with the S. I saw somewhere that the 500gb S cost like $225 to make.

I was refering to the PS4 S on my first post so i said 300.

Its likely less because of the lack of a 4K player.

Not to mention all the hypocrisy of people saying "when did you ever even buy a 4K Blu-ray". Like when did these guys suddenly become interested in 4K TVs and gaming.
Haven't heard any of them talk about it before, why is it a thing people all of a sudden are looking into buying??
Yeah, goes both ways guys.

Would also like to point out this is far from the console's biggest issue, just a small negative of the thing.
The much bigger issue is the CPU which is holding the thing back.

4K Blu Ray is not about the price of the disc drive.

Hardware of a UHD disc drive is the same as a standard Blu Ray drive. You only might need a firmware update.

Now, you do need the decoderstuff, HDCP 2.2 and so on. Basically all the stuff that's needed for 4K streams.

Sony doesn't want you to buy 4K discs. They want to have total control on movie content and push streaming further.

I would have preferred they take advantage of the "premium" title.

UHD Drive and Cell Processor for $600. This way there is a large and legitimate difference between models, but people looking to "just play games" can grab a Slim.

Yeah. You could said that there is always an "attacking" party and a "defensive" party. And as the criticism is focused form one side to the other their roles will reverse. Both side's are then equally hypocrits. I know that very well becauyse the only rule I follow is the rule of convenience, hypocricy is my middle name.

Also, most of the time both parties are doing both, attacking and defending. If I take the PS3 example as well, some people were targeting the price of the PS3 and defending 360 lack of Blu-ray while on the other side people were pointing out the lack of blu-rays on the 360 and at the same time defending the higher price of the PS3. Both sides are doing the exact same thing so that means everyone is evil. Good, because I'm getting lonely of being the only villian around here.

I agree it sucks majorly for a lot of people.

Fortunately I'm not one of those people and don't own any video Blu-Ray's let alone 4K ones.

But other than price point there's not lots you can do to defend them on this.

All this week's meltdown proved is there are a ton of people who've been hiding in the long grass waiting for an excuse to have a proper good go at Sony.

Everything you say is true. But there are more things to add to it.

Where were all these haters when the Wii and 360 didn't receive a built in blu ray.

Where will they be if the NX doesn't have a uhd Blu-ray player or maybe not even a standard one.

This will pass, and Sony will move on. Mark my words. Ps4 will pass 70m units sold at some point in 2017. I think that will answer the critics. This whole drama ain't gonna slow down the ps4.