Sony discussing MP3, CD playback in PS4 after surprising fan feedback

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When Sony outlined the PS4's hardware features in October, some potential customers were so shocked that the console wouldn't support MP3 files or CDs that they vowed to cancel their pre-orders. President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida was surprised by such a heated response.

"The biggest surprise for us all internally at Sony was there are so many people who passionately reacted to our announcement that there's no MP3 support or CD support on day one," Yoshida said on Giant Bomb's Interview Dumptruck, caught by Eurogamer. "It's not like we actively decided, 'Let's not do this feature so people will have to subscribe to Music Unlimited. The focus has been more on the game features. Some of the features we wanted but we couldn't get in on day one."

The PS4 team in Japan is figuring out the best way to implement the missing media features, Yoshida said: "We didn't really think about MP3 or CD. We thought, 'We're going to do that eventually ....' It caught us off-guard. People don't really talk about these features, right? Some people get really mad and [say,] 'I'll cancel my pre-order!' So as we speak, people in Japan – the system guys – are discussing when we can put these features in."

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/11/12/sony-discussing-mp3-cd-systems-in-ps4-after-surprising-fan-feed/

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TywinPosted:

Backbone oops, seems like sony have hit a nerve here then...

although i havent come across anyone saying: 'I'll cancel my pre-order!' as said up there.


If someone is about to dump out $400 for a console, I will assume they have other places to play music.

TywinPosted:

BLACKOPSslayer360 looks like the ps180 lost this round


I am just going to assume that you are a Xbox fan that bashes Sony any chance he is given.

TywinPosted:

xSTaTiCBLuEx I'm sorry but no one uses CD's or Mp3 on consoles anymore...don't then someone reply that you do because it isn't worth implementing it for the 5 people that will use it.


I'm sorry but you're FAR from being right.
There are millions of people who use CD's and MP3's.
YOU use MP3's if you have any songs on your phone.

TywinPosted:

Aruss94 "people didn't really talk about these features..."
doesn't matter. if it can happen on the old system it sure as hell better be brought into the next gen system. it's common sense.


Actually it isn't.
There are a lot of things that were on the orignal Xbox and wasn't brough over to the Xbox 360.

Same with the Ps2 to the PS3.

TywinPosted:

daRealRush Why are people complaining about MP3, and CD Playback? It's not like you can't listen to music on your Phone, Computer, iPod, MP3 Player, iPad, etc.


Because anything the Xbox One has that the PS4 doesn't, is going to be a big deal.

TomorrowLandPosted:

Good that they're listening to their consumers...

CaszechPosted:

This is great, I was hoping it would happen!

BRSPosted:

daRealRush Why are people complaining about MP3, and CD Playback? It's not like you can't listen to music on your Phone, Computer, iPod, MP3 Player, iPad, etc.


On the Xbox One you are allowed to.

BRSPosted:

Here's the thing, this is a zero cost investment (beyond licensing) there is no logical reason. They have media playback capability, the ability to play an MP3, impliment DLNA or play a CD is software they already have coded. This isn't a case of "putting the gaming features first" this is a case of stripping out a fundamental functionality in order to leverage a service. There is no spinning this out, yeah people want a gaming device first, okay that's reasonable but this is something their current generation console can do and there's no justifying that.

EchleonPosted:

DJxReWinD
Echleon
DJxReWinD What I don't get is how they didn't have time to implement these features already, especially if the console was made just for gaming. I mean Microsoft built their console around gaming but with multiple other aspects such as TV, Snap chat, and much more yet they still had time to put these components in....... I'm getting my own ps4 in a while and I'm getting the xbox one at launch to me this is kind of sad on sony's end


Who uses MP3s and DVD? this isn't sad no one cares. Xbox has all of those features because its a All-In-One Entertainment System.

I will be getting both but the majority of my games will be on PS4 because from what i read on these gaming sites, its well worth it.


With all honesty I do use those options though from time to time, the reason being is that I like to listen to my music through my turtle beach at full blast lol


you can listen to music while playing games on PS4


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