Microsoft to announce Mojang (Minecraft) buyout on Monday, for $2.5b

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Burek said:

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Burek said:
Very happy about this deal.
The more they spend on that game, the less will be leftover to moneyhat those games that are of interest to me.

But now it leaves me wondering --- if they have so much money to waste on one old game, why not give Square Enix a few million more and make Tomb Raider fully exclusive exclusive? Surely they could have afforded $50 million?

Not really, MS will clearly spend what they want to and it isn't a case of "this or that". It already says in the link, this isn't for Xbox it's for Mobile.

Yeah, you arer right. Makes me even happier, because they are clearly focused on mobile (as their mission statement says anyway), but still this means $2.5 billion less available for XBox.

And that makes me very happy, because I would hate to lose ability to play my favorite games.

A long shot, but my ultimate hope is that they continue moneyhatting mobile, and that the money for it comes from the sale and/or shutdown of the XBox division.

It's not $2.5b less though when they have $77b. My point is going forward, if they wanted to buy Taketwo for $3b or whatever it's worth, this deal would not mean they couldn't "Oh shit we already spent $2b on Minecraft, can't do that" wouldn't happen.

That's a great dream buddy, not gonna happen. MS are clearly dedicated to it and don't need to worry about its performance $$$ wise.