Wow, I haven't seen a PS4 in the wild since late 2019/early 2020.
Pray
Yup
Now just sell me an official external bluray drive that plays PS1/PS2/PS3 and/or PS4/PS5 discs.
Apparently its up for an hour.
The sad thing is the PS5 doesn't even support CD playback so that'd be an upgrade for my disc PS5 too.
I figured since Sony basically is part owner of Blu-ray technology, it wouldn't be such an issue to have at least an external Blu-ray disc player. Unlike Microsoft, having to pay license fees and probably other things to use Blu-ray.
Funny as I remember the first gen ps3 supported everything under the sun including super cds (never saw them in store). Sony definitely wants to move away from the disk drive.
I actually waited to buy one when it first came out. Early on there were no games for the system, and I waited for exclusives, not just to have the ability to play upgraded PS4 games. Perhaps as of today in 2022 they’re hard to get. Over the last year they never were truly hard to get. I feel that if you didn’t try then you didn’t want one really. My PS5 was accidentally purchased from target, and I was offered two directly from Sony by email over the past year. I didn’t even respond to the emails since I already owned one.
GameStop PS5 Disc bundle #1 GameStop PS5 Disc bundle #2: $735 GameStop PS5 Digital bundle #1: $640 GameStop PS5 Digital bundle #2: $630Yeah if you want full hdmi 2.1 support (which the ps5 does ) it’s $300-$500 bucks atm. While my xbsx also has a Blu-ray drive the actual movie player sucks. Horrible color accuracy, contrast, and hdr routinely also shows a movie’s scan lines as well I could never get it to work right. PlayStations are the goat of Blu-ray/dvd playback.
I don't think they ever really cared about HD-DVD, but I haven't had any complaints about Blu-ray playback on my Xbox One and Series X consoles. More importantly, Microsoft is better at making game consoles...
This is also what I heard about the PS5 with regards to UHD playback. It's just a better multimedia device if you want to watch discs.
To say Blu-ray is Sony tech is a bit inaccurate; there's an entire consortium made up of other companies (including Sony) that developed the tech. I don't think Microsoft was ever 'mad' about using a superior disc format that won out in the end.
these bundles.
I don’t know, I kinda think that digital bundle for $630 with the Digital console, PlayStation Plus 12-month membership, and Samsung 1TB 980 Pro Heatsink is pretty excellent. It’s literally everything you would use and no filler. I have that ssd installed in my console, it’s excellent, it loads lightning fast!
Yeah you save way more by paying the extra $100 as well. You can get tons of games cheaper used or even new physically than digitally
Passed by this morning wondering what was going on, there was a line of about 12.
I think it more so has to deal with the fact Sony makes tvs, disk standards, professional camera, industrial projectors, and own a movie studio…they’re experts at this stuff end to end. M$ offered hd dvd because it was a real concern you couldn’t play ’next gen’ movies. Also as crazy as this sounds hd dvd was giving Blu-ray a run for its money until studios pulled out. That was a closer race than people remember. Some studios we’re all in in one format and not the other.
It was just hours before HD-DVD was to have a presentation at the Consumers Electronics Show when Warner Bros who was backing both formats announced they will go only Blu-Ray moving forward. That ended the format wars right there as HD-DVD canceled their presentation. Until that announcement it was very close with some studios backing either both formats, blu-ray only or HD-DVD only
A trivial factor today when digital sales are over the 50% parity hump. I'd be more worried what happens when that royalty money ceases. . .
This is a topic for another day, but I would surmise that when consoles do make that leap a decision will need to be made what to do about retired licenses. Imagine if they allowed anyone with a disc to redeem a digital copy with the expectation that moving forward the disc wouldn't be required. There would be massive groups of people moving games around to take advantage so it's not a realistic option. Alternatively, you could offer a recycling program where discs were sent in for a redemption code and destroyed. That kind of operation would be incredibly expensive for no ROI, in fact harming digital sales in the process for the company. My guess is that when disc drives go away, they will become luxury items and sold as a peripheral which goes hand in hand with the slow phase-out of physical.
Zero chance publishers will give a crap. They would NEVER provide licenses for the discs you currently own. You can still play them on the console they were made for. Many will get rereleased on the new disc less consoles and you will have to repurchase them.
