Chart of Profit/Loss for the Big 3's Gaming Sector?

[Twistedpixel]

gurglesletch said:

Twistedpixel said:

TWRoO said:

So the Xbox was launched out  of thin air was it? No R&D costs at all?

Considering the use of off the shelf componentry, it wouldn't cost more than $100M at a long stretch. Feel free to tack that on somewhere if you please.

100 million is too small.

How so? The research and development costs were the excessively high royalties and cost they paid for the parts. All they had to do was assemble a decent box, the software and especially the console specific software was already there on account of the Dreamcast and Direct X. Making the original Xbox would be no more expensive that Sony creating a PS3 Slim from the already available components they have for the PS3 phat.