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teigaga on 18 November 2014
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
DialgaMarine said:
Wright said:

 Actually, they couldn't. The deal to have Mincraft on a Playstation was a contract made before MS's purchase. When MS purchased Minecraft, the purchased the contract as well, and are legally obligated to hold their end of it. The same applied to Skype on Vita. 


MS could've broken the deal, bro. Rememeber when they tried to keep Mass Effect from Sony by having a contract with Bioware and then EA bought Bioware? EA chose to break the contract because the contract was not between the new owners and Microsoft, but the company they purchased, which no longer matters if Bioware no longer own their IP's.

Why are people arguing over this? No ones  knows the specifics of any contract and they each can be very different. The contract the developers agreed to may have specifically stressed that MS could not withhold Minecraft from already planned platforms. In the case of ME, Mass Effect 1 didn't come to the PS3 till years later... There could be numerous reasons for this i.e time or resources but equally could have a been a legal matter regarding the contract relating to that game (not future ME titles).

In any case people are taking the OP far too literally, its just ironic that the Vita most successful title since launch is coming from a company owned by MS, sony's main competitor.