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Snoopy said:
Swordmasterman said:

Sony  and Nintendo actually release their Profits with their gaming divisions. I think that last year Nintendo made 350+ Millions and Sony 800-1 Billion.

Microsoft will need to sell a lot of Minecraft at other plataforms for 20US$ to break even, it can take  over a decade or even more.

No, because they have 2.5 billion in assets with mincecraft.

So Minecraft was developed in a castle made of gold and diamonds and Microsoft got the castle in Minecraft's purchase ?.



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Bandorr said:
Swordmasterman said:

So Minecraft was developed in a castle made of gold and diamonds and Microsoft got the castle in Minecraft's purchase ?.

Someone seems to be under the assumption that if you BUY something for 2.5 million - it will always be worth that.

Ignoring that values increase, decrease, and something is worth only what OTHERS will pay for it.  Can't name any other company that would pay 2.5 billion for Minecraft.

If MS write off 2B of Minecraft on their financial books because they reavaluated the asset will he accept the 2B in loss? Have he ever heard of cost of opportunity?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Bandorr said:
Swordmasterman said:

So Minecraft was developed in a castle made of gold and diamonds and Microsoft got the castle in Minecraft's purchase ?.

Someone seems to be under the assumption that if you BUY something for 2.5 million - it will always be worth that.

Ignoring that values increase, decrease, and something is worth only what OTHERS will pay for it.  Can't name any other company that would pay 2.5 billion for Minecraft.

It is really crazy to pay 2.5 Billions for a game that already sold dozens of Millions of units and you will only be able to sell it for 20US$ without getting 100% of  the money on all plataforms.

If they had 20US$ of profit per unit they would need to sell over 125 Millions of units(after the aquisition) to break even. It will take years. I know that this isn't much but they also still need to pay the employes of Mojang and the budgets of their games.