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Originally Posted by kjk

Ironically, there is one market research firm who also thinks Amazon and B&N are making zero profits on hardware:

http://www.twice.com/article/454160-..._Price_War.php

It may be that Amazon and B&N are going with the razor/blade model. But just to point out, Nintendo is making money hand over fist with the Wii and DS hardware sales and both SONY and MS were making money on console sales (MS might not be atm with their newest release).

iSuppi in my experience has been good at giving us an _idea_ about costs for hardware. We can never know volume price rates for parts might be. But grain of salt is pushing it imo.