because entertaining the notion the Sony actually knows what they're doing is just too much to bear for some of you, I understand, I think it's pathetic, but I understand

I do think your post is somewhat funny...but not very logical.

In any case, most people should realize that these estimates are innacurate at best. They don't thake quantity in to consideration. I am pretty sure most of the PSV's components are not off the shelf and are custom made for the console. So the more Sony makes of them the cheaper it is per unit in the long run.

becasue you may understand

I have not, nor have I or any "sony fan" ever stated that these estimates are the total product cost and are an indication of massive profitz, it does however show that it is not as expensive as most would want people to believe, and as such would clearly losing Sony massive amounts of money. 

at worse they are breaking even

FAKE.
There's no way the Vita is cheaper to make than a 3DS. We already know Nintendo is making a loss on each one at $169.99.

If the tech inside the Vita was really that cheap, don't you think Nintendo would have added a little more power to the 3DS considering its CHEAPER!?

VGking,
3DS costs 100$, Vita 160$
Vita has no 3d screen, so i think 160 is very likely

They were talking seperatly about reaching PSP sales levels within the Vita's lifetime then they started talking about profit, so they were not related. 3 years to have return on investment indicating that either:

1) the Vita hardware is selling at a profit,

and/or

2) Vita software and accessories are providing overall profitability for the product as a whole. 

The confusion is created by those websites that mistranslated, misunderstood, or purposesvly spinned(lied) that Vita was being sold at a loss despite Sony never saying that and discussing return on investment profitability 3 years down the road.

why all Sony fans want us to believe Vita is selling at a profit?

70 million in 3 years... that makes sense to you, that's 25 million a year minimum

c'mon people seriously this shouldn't be that hard

Nitpicking to suit their own agenda. Pretty simple explanation TBH.

@dieappledie

It is not about believing, I'm just looking at the facts. There is a chance the hardware is breaking even, or more likely than that the wifi selling at a loss and the 3G at a profit. But without accurate figures of to market costs we can't be for sure. With basic assumptions it looks like the Vita is making a profit, for example 3DS selling at a loss with a $70 markup, while the Vita at $90 and $140. If logistics are equal between Nintendo and Sony, for simplicity, then for the Vita to sell at a loss the 3DS would have to be loosing over $20 to over $70. Highly unlikely.

Let's not forget Vita's memory card requirment, under normal circumstances unbundled, people pay $20 to $100 for memory and that's a guarentee sell, so any profit made from that can be applied to the Vita. If Sony made memory internal those profits would be unquestionable, so don't rule it out because it is external, if anything it creates more profit since people can buy multiple memory cards. It is a pretty decent set up for profit. I just don't know why Sony didn't just have Vita's with memory in the box, selling at $270 to $400. I suppose the base price number of $250 was really important at the time against 3DS.