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In one of Major Nelson’s recent podcasts with some of the crew from Epic, an epic secret was released - Epic was the reason that the Xbox 360 has 512MB of RAM instead of 256MB. That fact alone cost Microsoft a billion dollars. Mark Rein fills us in:

“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’.”

And gamers thank you from around the world.

News: Gears cost Microsoft “one billion dollars” - ComputerAndVideoGames.com