It's very common to sell game consoles at a loss. They make it back in game sales.

I said I don't believe, not I've never heard of that.

I think it's an urban legend fueled by marketing, I've never seen any hard proof of that, except some BOM calculations from independant analyse, but I don't think mass production work that way.

Those are basically the same thing, depending on how you bookkeep the fixed cost of development.