LuckyTrouble on 20 June 2015
I find that chart kind of funky considering this year was the first time Nintendo has reported a profit in four years, whereas that chart makes it look like Nintendo has only hemorrhaged money for one year from 2010 through 2013. That said, I have literally no idea what that chart is measuring, where it came from, or how accurate it ultimately is. To me, it's about as reliable as numbers written on a napkin.
That said, I'm sure the Xbox was pretty expensive for Microsoft when it came out. Microsoft had to do R&D from scratch and release an unknown console into a market that was being dominated by Sony. That's risky and pretty much guarantees loss unless you miraculously hit it big in one try, which Microsoft most definitely did not.
