bananaking21 on 12 September 2015
"Mathematically, certainly, if you look at the original Xbox, it’s just true. The original Xbox lost, depending on who is doing the accounting, somewhere between $5 billion and $7 billion. I think of that as an investment, and everybody ultimately can think of that as an investment, because we know the end of this story. The end of this story is that the successor product made billions of dollars, even with the write-off, and has built an asset for Microsoft that’s worth billions of dollars by itself," Bach told GeekWire.
Full article here: http://www.examiner.com/article/former-xbox-head-says-original-xbox-lost-between-5-billion-and-7-billion
