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

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TheBlackNaruto said:

true_fan said:

 

How far back are you guys going to move back the goal posts. What I can say accoring to job listins is that LXP and Platform Next are AAA studiuos and 3 of the remaining studios are smaller.

Oh I get it MSFT is supposed to worry about everyone else while the competition only has to worry about themselves.

You seem pretty defensive for some reason. Most here(even a majority of the XB fans) think this is a waste of money because that is just what it seems like....period. People are saying they should put more money into investing in New IPs because everyone knows that si where MS was lacking. Why waste $2B of minecraft? They could have went after GTA or something bigger. Although I would prefer that they just make new IPS like they are doing with QB and SO.

No hidden agendas just calling a bad move in a lot of our eyes what it is a bad move....your "of course most would say it is bad" comment is silly because youa re basing it off of something silly like PS vs MS or something. Nothing like that here even if Sony made this purchase it would still be a waste of money...period.

But hey maybe MS sees some potential we do not.....time will tell

Minecraft isn't just a huge gaming console franchise ... it's a huge app (iOS/Android) franchise too ... something GTA is not. 

Maybe MS would buy GTA too if they could, but Take 2 is a publicly traded company as I understand it making such a deal very complicated. Mojang is a private company with one owner (notch) ... wooing him individually with $2 billion is a lot easier.