Microsoft Nearing Deal To Purchase Minecraft for $2 Billion CNBC Reports

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wary-wallaroo said:

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jnemesh said:
I don't know what they hope to accomplish with that purchase. Yes, Minecraft is insanely popular...but it's one property...and it's too late to pull it from the PS4. If they wanted to make an impact, they should have bought them BEFORE the game launched on the competing platform.

Technically they could yank it from the PS3/4 I guess. Vita version probably will get canned too. 

I think they will keep the iOS/Android versions though ... too much money to ignore. 

 

Making it X1 only would just kill the franchise, not help the X1

360/X1/iOS/Android/Windows Phone is plenty of platform availability.