NEWS: The Godfather Cost EA $810 Million

From Kotaku:

No, really. Sure, game development clocked in around $10-20 million, but when EA announced the game would be delayed, missing the critical holiday sales period, the financial impact on the company was somewhere in the realm of $800 mill. Now at the $40 price point, EA is making it even more difficult to recover their losses.

800 Million!? How the fuck does missing the holiday season equal such a huge amount of money? Sure, I can see your self losing SOME potential revenue, but 800 million?

Wow.... good game indeed.