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Some of you guys are just looking at Minecraft game sales alone and how much Mojang made off it, but for Microsoft it is a lot more than that. Imagine how many xbox gaming systems they can push with Minecraft, right now Microsoft it making a profit off each xbox one and the xbox 360 sold. If they can make about 100 dollars in profit for each xbox one or xbox 360 sold (hardware, accessories,advertisement,3rd party royalty fee, xbox live, ect...) and if millions of people buy their gaming system for Minecraft or over the ps4 for Minecraft that is about 200 - 300 million dollars profit from that alone. This isn't including Minecraft game itself, Toy and accessories, sequals, dlc, windows platform and more. If they think they can't make a profit off this purchase they wouldn't be purchasing it.