All the costs of the PS3 are all speculation. Yes Sony are losing money on the PS3's or were at one point obviously because of R&D etc, but I seriously doubt they are losing $200+ per unit. Blu-Ray costs are dramatically reducing all the time and these costs alone IMHO will provide Sony with a profit per unit sale. Also there are reductions on chip manufacturing costs and removing the emotion chip will reduce costs as well.
I honestly believe that Sony would be making a profit at the moment if they had only included a DVD drive instead of Blu-Ray....but seeing as Blu-Ray costs have reduced have halfed in less than a year, this bodes well for Sony in reducing the PS3 price as well as making a profit.
I still believe that Sony will reduce the PS3 price by the end of this year.
Prediction (June 12th 2017)
Permanent pricedrop for both PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro in October.
PS4 Slim $249 (October 2017)
PS4 Pro $349 (October 2017)
