When it comes to network subscriptions, at the time of this article Playstation's online services were pretty much all free. It was one of the differentiators compared to Xbox's paid online services at the time.

That said though, the original PS3 hardware was definitely sold at a negative margin and wouldn't be profitable until four years into the console's life.

Article from 2010 talking about how the PS3 hardware had only just become profitable: https://www.pcworld.com/article/512740/article-4244.html

The console released in 2006.