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Gears cost Microsoft "one billion dollars"

Monday 23-Oct-2006 9:54 PM Epic boss Mark Rein explains how Gears Of War cost MS a lot of money...
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At a recent Canadian Community Party, Epic VP Mark Rein was on hand to take a light-hearted open floor Q&A. Aside from a lot of information on Gears' gameplay and marketing, Rein also joked about the rumours of how the game costs Microsoft one billion dollars.

Thanks to the wonder of Major Nelson and his latest podcast, you can quite clearly hear Rein said "That story you all heard about us costing Microsoft a billion dollars, that's actually true!"

He continued: "So what happened was, my partner Tim Sweeney, we kept arguing and we really wanted a hard drive in every single machine; that was something we really wanted but we realized that the 512 megs of RAM was way more important, cause otherwise you couldn't do this level of graphics if you had to both write your program and do your graphics in 256 megs. Nothing would really look that HD.

"So we argued and argued, and what Tim did is he actually sent a screenshot of what Gears of War would look like if we only had 256 megs of memory. So the day they made the decision, we were apparently the first developer they called; we were at Game Developers Conference, was it two years ago, and then I got a call from the chief financial officer of MGS and he said 'I just want you to know you cost me a billion dollars' and I said, 'we did a favour for a billion gamers'."

Thanks to www.teamxbox.com

Gavin Ogdencomputerandvideogames.com
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in an average lifetime of a human male, how many hours does he spend standing up doing a peepee?
Demoki on 23 Oct '06
Can we imagine if the 360 did ship with just 256 meg of ram?

Comparisons with the PS3/Wii would have been even more interesting then!
ramsingh1 on 24 Oct '06
yep i could imagine gears of war would of come out on a better console, the PS3 lol Very Happy
rabbit0147 on 26 Oct '06
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