Lol Microsoft didn’t do anything other than purchase a studio.

Yeah, they buyed the studio YEARS BEFORE Switch existed.

It seems Sony needs to buy some studios, then.

The DS was sold till 2015 when the 3DS launched. The 3DS did it till 2021 when the Switch launched. The GBA also had some juice left after the DS. The Gameboy lasted ~ 14 years if we include the Color. Even without that the GB (original) had even first party games till 2000. Even the NES was around after the SNES came. Only the N64, the Gamecube and the WiiU died off quickly after its sucessor came out. You can bet that the Switch will last till 2027 at least! It won't ship less than 4 million next year and at least a few 100k if not even a million in 2026/27. And thats pessimistic. 

bit unfair because they bought the studio +10 years ago and spend a lot of rescources into it, nobody predicted the game would still be alive by now...also thx to Minecraft and others MS makes it in the top 10 publishers in Japan.

If Sony wanted to have a game in the top 30 they should have released a port of Astrobot or spiderman on switch it is that simple.

All top 30 spots during the holidays is insane. This is a good sign for the Switch 2.

The DS was an absolute sales monster in 2006 and 2007. It sold record numbers never before (or after) seen by any other console. A normal week for the DS in Japan was like 120k units while constantly being sold out. When big games released it often got close to 300k units... like, in the middle of summer. DS sales dropped after summer holidays 2007, to a level below 100k weekly units. So basically a "normal" level for a highly successful console, comparable to the Switch or the PS2.

That was right at the time when the PSP finally took off in Japan: The PSP 2000 model was released in September 2007, which sharply increased sales for the next 12 months or so. And Monster Hunter had been a big hit in Japan for quite a while. In early 2008 Monster Hunter Freedom Unite pushed the PSP to sell above the DS from March until August.

Basically, it was a combination of factors: For one, the DS had reached a certain level of saturation in Japan. In mid 2007 the insane amount of software releases for the system also cooled down a bit, to a somewhat normal level. And at the same time the PSP was getting a new model and had more and exciting software in the pipeline. That period from September 2007 to August 2008 was the PSPs absolute peak and that had an effect on DS sales.

Spent a lot of resources on it? They spent nothing on the development, and — from what I have heard — have only changed the game for the worse. Also, “nobody predicted the game would still be alive now” is a red herring to the suggested point that Microsoft was taking a risk in purchasing Mojang. (Unless you are literally just trying to say that nobody would’ve been able to predict the longevity of this game’s legs & nothing else…which is kinda a useless point in a vacuum. The gaming industry was very different back in 2014. There were no GTAV’s, Fortnite’s, MK8D, etc., that were selling through millions of units several years later. There was no expectation for such legs back then, so ofc nobody would’ve predicted this.) Microsoft purchased Mojang 3y after Minecraft was released (2014). This was back when Minecraft was taking off, hence the astronomical $2.5bil price tag over a studio with one big game in its resumé.

Microsoft has been nothing more than a cannibalist over the past decade in gaming. No original titles made from home-grown studios. Only purchasing reputable studios (Bethesda, Activision, etc.) and IP (CoD, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc.) so as to pump-up the Microsoft Gaming brand & short-term profits.

Yeah basically Microsoft whole history in gaming has been to use their money advantage to buy up tons of studios, all while portraying themselves as an underdog compared to Sony and Nintendo which has always been ludicrous. Even during the first Xbox console they made a lot of western publishers stop making games for Nintendo consoles and instead make games for Xbox, which is one of the reasons why Gamecube failed so hard.

The Switch has gotten a 2nd 100k week for the year which is very impressive. I wonder if this or the 1st week of next year will be the final time that happen. Also 3m in its 8th year is ridiculous and it's very possible that will never happen again in Japan.