Quote Originally Posted by JayCommon View Post

I do disagree with this, however. The PS4 would have most likely been about $200 dollars more if they included the laser needed to read PS3 games into the PS4. Plus, I'm not a big fan of backwards compatibility anyway. I keep my old consoles incase I ever want to play a classic. It sucks in your case (with your PS3 crapping out and all), but I'm very happy with the PS4 just being a PS4. I would wager that if you have the type of job that allows you to just up and buy a new system when the old one craps out, then it shouldn't be too hard for you to save up $79-$119 bucks for a refurbished PS3 at game stop. I would also bet that those prices will be true for new versions of the systems in a short amount of time as well.
Lol? Its the same laser, they're both blue ray. This isn't DVD to blue ray, red laser to blue. Could've easily been done with an emulation program like the later PS3 models had.

O not to mention there's that company Sony bought before PS4 release that does that streaming stuff. It was expected that it might be an add on later.