NickJames
Supreme [H]ardness
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And now you're stuck with an outdated Xbone, no offense.
Sony skipped the drive because streaming is king. <1% of people in the market for a game console will ever bother to rent/buy a physical 4K Bluray. Special snowflakes aside, optical is dead if you look at sales figures. Thus, why increase the BOM for the other 99% that will never care about playing a physical 4K BD?
Sorry but streaming is far from king in the US. The ISP market has been strongly pushing data caps nation wide this year and many people can not afford to stream 15GB a movie. Oh and as far as quality, physical disc is far superior to the shit Netflix feeds you. Also your figures are highly exaggerated as there is a huge market influx of 4K TVs in the affordable price range and many customers very disappointed Sony went to cheap route and decided not to include it in their latest console. It was a dumb move on their part because if your estimates are correct then no one would care about a 4K gaming console in the first place. Until ISPs loosen their grip on the consumers balls there will always be a market for physical media, so until I am sitting on 1gbps unlimited I am not settling for "decent" 4K streaming.
Also, $210 UHD Player + Game System > $200 UHD Standalone Player
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