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yvanjean on 15 September 2014
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platformmaster918 said:
yvanjean said:
wary-wallaroo said:
Biggest news? Why? It changes very little


Don't down play the importance of Minecraft, I have never played the game but I still know that it's one of the biggest current gaming IP hence the $2.5B price tag. My three young nephews have been playing nothing but mine craft over the summer and they were eagerly waiting for Mine craft PS4.  It's not like the graphic will suddenly be outdated for the next gen console since the game was never about graphic!

but will Minecraft 2 do enough to recapture the magic or be the next Wii sports resort?  Also will MS take it off everything except X1 because otherwise it'll be just like 360 having Minecraft exclusive which didn't do much hardware wise.

MS is saying that they can recoup their investment without even releasing Minecraft 2. Basically MS will milk the the Minecraft brand for all it's worth. They are probably going to use minecraft to promote other device or software. Mojang was small company that was raking high earnings without really having to do any promotion or pushing their brand.

I've seen people say that MS need to sell 84 million minecraft at 30$ to get their money back. That's not how they intent to recoup their investment and make revenue with the Minecraft brand. It's certainly an important aspect but that would hardly be worth $2.5B.