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konnichiwa on 07 November 2017
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setsunatenshi said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

Yeah, but if they didn’t spend it on Minecraft, it would just be sitting there in the bank. Generating roughly 25 million a year in interest. So in order for MS to come out positive, Minecraft only needs to make more than 25 million a year. Last I remember Minecraft was generating well over 100 million in profit, and that was before it really exploded merchandise wise and got Story Mode games, etc. Now there are multiple Minecraft games on every console, DLC, etc. It’s making them way more than 25 million a year.

really? do you have anything to back that up? i mean the part that Microsoft takes 100M profit from Minecraft every year.

do you have any idea how many studios they could actually fund and how many new IPs 2.5B would actually fund?

instead they bought the licence for a game that pretty much everyone already played and got over years ago.

 

edit: even if your figures would be correct, it would take 25+ years of MS profitting 100M every single year just to break even on keeping that money under the matress. not counting inflation, etc

He doesn't but it is very clear they make money and probably already made their money back.  They bought it when it was only 60 million in sales and has surpassed alteast 120 million copies (last February report) but like GTA that's not where the money comes from but insteads comes from DLC/mash packs/Monthly Realms income/merchandise etc.