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

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GamechaserBE said:

Chevinator123 said:
how the heck are they gonna get their money back from this??!

so stupid wtf, they could make 15+ new ips with that much

Minecraft sold alone on X360 around 12 million (and that number is from April).  The game is sold for 20€/20$ and then their is all the theme/skin packs...

That is a lot of money for just the X360 version and it is still in the top 10/20 lists..  

But we don't know what is in the deal it can be aswell that they buy him and his IP's for 1,5billion and at the same time will spend 1 billion for his new games...

Yet, despite all that, Mojang "only" made 130 million dollars last year, and that's across every single platfrom, and including money from merchandise.