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Re:SteamOS by trycatch on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:29PM (#6433145)
Total production costs of the famous Atari's E.T. (1982) were $125M according to Wikipedia. It's more than $300M in 2013 dollars.
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Re:SteamOS by bryanlarsen on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:52PM (#6433317)
Which works out to $25 million to get the E.T. license, $100 million to make millions of cartridges to bury in the desert, and $200,000 on actual development.
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Re:SteamOS by ekianjo on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:10AM (#6435917)
I think I have read somewhere that the cartridges being buried in the desert is just a hoax.
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Re:SteamOS by kibibu on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:38AM (#6436012)
http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp
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Re:SteamOS by ijk on Monday September 23, 2013 @08:07PM (#6434982)
That ratio explains a lot.
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Re:SteamOS by csomar on Monday September 23, 2013 @03:14PM (#6433471)
Next Generation Magazine reported that Atari earned US$25 million in sales, but netted a loss of US$100 million.

Doesn't seem like it was a good idea, though.

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