Cost of UHD Blu Ray - Is MS subsidizing Xbone S, or is Sony just milking it?

[JRPGfan]

aLkaLiNE said:
What about neither? Is it not possible that Microsoft is making profit off the slim while Sony fit all they could in the box for $400? A >2x power increase is nothing to sneeze at.

^ this.

The chip inside the normal PS4 is bigger than the one in the Xbox One.

So MS probably save abit of $ on the cpu+gpu, and choose to include a 4k blu-ray drive as insentive for people to get the weaker console (xbox one slim instead of a stronger PS4).

Sony's new PS4 Pro chip (cpu+gpu) is probably alot more expensive than the normal PS4s, so in order to keep it at 399$, they couldnt afford to include the 4k Blu-ray drive as well if they wanted to hit that price point.