Tim Schafer needs "several millions" for Psychonauts 2 - Notch says he has them. Psychonauts 2 happening before our eyes?

[NotStan]

Kasz216 said:

NotStan said:

Kasz216 said:

Just... how much did this guy make off of Minecraft anyway? That he can throw around millions like that?

I mean... I woulda thought he would of made a million or two sure... but enough that he can throw a couple million around?!

According to the website, about 4.9m people have brought minecraft, even if counting it as £10 a pop(That was the price of it in Alpha) but taking taxes etc into account, that's still an impressive sum.

He must be sitting on at least 20-30 probably, but as he said before, the money just goes into the account, and he lives on his normal salary or something, pretty cool guy.

DAAAAAANG.

I dunno, me i'd at least live off the Bank accounts interest.

Funny stuff really.  Development studios going bankrupt left and right.  THQ looking to be a big tree about to fall....

Yet here a 1 man development team is able to rake in that kind of cash.

An outlier for sure but still... more and more i feel like blockbuster Triple A development studios and companies built around them just aren't supposed to exist.

 

Things ranging instead from indy 1-man stuff like minecraft to your more modes 4-5 million development budgets.

Just goes to show how ridicoulus the notion of triple A budget games can be. Not all of them are great just because millions more were spend on them, props to notch for coimng up with something so simple yet addictive enough to become such a massive hit over the last few years.

I've met an unbelievable amount of people who play minecraft, and even more who've at least heard of it. It's just insane, even my managers at work heard of it.