SONY's 3 billion loss on the playstation 3...well take a look at this loss.

[joeorc]

In spite of spending more than $8bn a year on research and development and having one of the tech industry's biggest research labs, Microsoft has a reputation as a producer of "me-too" services that may be technically competent but rarely push the envelope in user experiences.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e18f46c-6...0779fd18c.html

yea 3 billion is Quite a bit but no way near this amount. R&D..