28th September 2005, 4:54 PM
Moss, you mean? Eh, that's probably better than ants...
Oh, and as for the original topic...
http://ve3dboards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=21741473
A guy there has a bunch of links for costs... Xbox lost money every single quarter except winter '04 (Halo 2). Some people wanted to blame this on either Xbox or X360 development costs, but for the most part it's not... it's all spread out. MS is just that good at losing money in the console business. :)
For comparison, Sega pulled out of the console industry because it lost $800 million in two years. MS? 4 billion down and they barely care... the joys of being a $228 billion dollar company?
http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/news/i...000522.htm
Oh, and as for the original topic...
http://ve3dboards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=21741473
A guy there has a bunch of links for costs... Xbox lost money every single quarter except winter '04 (Halo 2). Some people wanted to blame this on either Xbox or X360 development costs, but for the most part it's not... it's all spread out. MS is just that good at losing money in the console business. :)
For comparison, Sega pulled out of the console industry because it lost $800 million in two years. MS? 4 billion down and they barely care... the joys of being a $228 billion dollar company?
http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/news/i...000522.htm