It will be interesting to see what there plans are because at the moment, just buying Mojang and mine craft will not sell more windows phones (well certainly not 2.5b worth)... it really won't. So they must have some other plan that has not been leaked yet.

Rationalize it however you want, I sincerely doubt he's selling his highly successful game company to start over.

Who would turn it down? A small indie game based kind of guy, that's who. Or myself, if I were in Notch's situation.

Looks like I nailed it with the comments Notch released today. I just don't understand your line of thinking that because you sell a company that makes games means you can no longer make games later on.  I mean that absolutley makes no sense. Notch clearly thought MC was to big, pressure was to much now he can focus on other ideas and not have the pressure. Makes perfect sense! He also now has really deep pockets and can pretty much do what he wants.

I'd say you most certainly didn't nail it, in fact I did. He released a letter saying he was only there for "the culture". He flat out says in that letter that he's not going to start a new studio. He says he's going to do those little competitions where you make a game in a couple of days, and little web experiments that aren't even games. Not a new indie studio. He's just going to fiddle around with code basically, because that's all he wants to do. It's not like being the owner affected him much, it just meant sometimes things were connected to him that he had no idea about because he was just a figurehead. But no, he had to sell it off to a corporation. He even said it wasn't about the money, so then why not give it to Jens? He's a hypocrite, and we're not going to be seeing anything from him again gamewise, unless you pay close attention to the Ludum Dares contests he enters, and if you do, and try to make the little 2 day games he makes into something big, you have his word that he's going to abandon it. That $2.5 billion dollars won't be going into making games, it'll go into giving him a pampered lifestyle where he can fuck around with code for the rest of his life accomplishing nothing. I hate him even more now than I did when I first found out about the sellout.

Hmm, since that letter the article I seen is gone.

Regardless, sellout? who gives a rats ass. It's just a damn game. Stop taking things so personal. The article I saw he said the pressure was getting to be to much and he wanted to work on smaller projects... Basically Minecraft got bigger then he ever expected.

Worst case scenario, they lose some money. Not the entire $2.5 billion.

Remember, Minecraft isn't just one of the best selling video games ever. It profits from DLC and merchandise as well.

Ya they won't lose all of it but $2.5 billion is to much for one game to make, even with DLC and merchandise