Bloomberg: Microsoft to expand software development, looking into opening/aquiring studios. Also streaming

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Nymeria said:

setsunatenshi said:

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

They also have an asset in owning Minecraft.  They could possibly sell the IP later on.  Maybe for 2.5 billion, maybe more, maybe less.

From their perspective such a massive buy may have been a safer bet than backing ten major game projects.  

Minecraft was a good purchase for MS for sure. It didn't do anything for us gamers though, we already had Minecraft before MS threw 2.5 billion at it.