MS wants to work with Sony to bring the "Better Together" Minecraft update to PS4

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Xen said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Well, they would lose a game that sold about  17 million copies on PS4, PS3 and Vita. 
If Microsoft made Minecraft a console exclusive, it would be a systemseller. A pretty huge one to be honest. 

I am wondering as to why they haven't, really - it's something like making Lego exclusive to a certain kind of glove... it could be huge for their ecosystem focus!

DonFerrari said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Well, they would lose a game that sold about  17 million copies on PS4, PS3 and Vita. 
If Microsoft made Minecraft a console exclusive, it would be a systemseller. A pretty huge one to be honest. 

Could... but since MS decided not to they probably saw that the net gain on Minecraft 2 being X1 exclusive wouldn't be a big enough system seller to recover 100M SW loss.

Most probably the main reason is that Notch sold Mojang to MS after having stricken a deal with Sony for Minecraft ports to its platforms, so it wasn't possible anymore to make Minecraft totally exclusive, as such deals are binding even if one of the companies changes owner. You can tell quite a strong deal exists from the fact that the publisher of Minecraft on Sony platforms is  neither Mojang nor Microsoft, but Sony itself.