| Soundwave said: A $2 billion acquisition has to come with the blessings of Nadella and the broad Microsoft board ... most of whom don't care specifically about gaming. Minecraft is different because it is the no.1 paid smartphone/tablet app in the world today along with also showing signs of being a break out merchandising/toy phenomenon ... apparently there is a Minecraft Movie (from the LEGO Movie guys) already in the works for example. Grand Theft Auto is just a video game IP that would only benefit the XBox division. Minecraft benefits Windows + mobile Windows + XBox + MS in general as an entertainment entity. |
Buying Take2 would be worth more imho and yes that would be games, but as games is what's struggling and Minecraft is currently primarily a game with merchandise,... it's more confusing because MS doesnt do merchandise.
As for Minecraft being of more benefit as an entertainment entity, yeah I could agree with you there if they had not sold their TV devision off, and dont have a movie company. MS are *NOT* an entertainment business, they are a software/services company at heart. Thats why I say it doesnt make sense. More sense for Sony to buy them at least they have a few film companies. In fact it would make way more Sense for MS to buy a film company for $2b with their back catalogue of movies... which they could have on their service.
In fact buying them for $2 for just a movie or something is not really going to cut it.
Lets look at mobile, windows mobile isnt doing that well. Do we think buy Mojang will mean more sales of Windows Mobile because they will have minecraft on them... nope. It's already on the main devices, would my kids who have minecraft as me to get them a phone because it's on there... no they wouldnt. Kids are fickle creatures, they already have minecraft, they wouldnt care.
It's not worth $2b, if MS did this deal, it would be a shocker.
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