In October, Sony announced it’s hardware features for the PS4. Most of it’s fan base and potential customers were extremely pleased with the exception of one feature that was not present. That was MP3 and CD playback. For some reason Sony did not include that in the PS4 and it caused many customers to threaten 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. “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 working on the best way to add in 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.”
Let us know in the comment section below if MP3/CD Playback is an important feature for you in the PS4 and would you like to see it added soon by Sony?
Other Source: EuroGamer
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