DroidKnight said:
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Due to factors like population decline I think it's likely to not happen again but I suppose underestimating Nintendo in Japan is usually a bad idea so we'll see lol.
Sephiran said:
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. |
So... "Minecraft for Switch does not count as a Microsoft game and Microsoft boycotted Gamecube and that's the reason Nintendo failed hard with that console"
Yeah... and Santa Claus does not give gifts to children in Africa because he is RACIST---> same logic.
firebush03 said:
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 they did invest in it a lot thats we have also Minecraft education, The game changed to the worse is no issue because you can literally choose in the launcher which version you want to play, 1.17.10, 1.16.03 or my favourite 1.13.00, MC is rather unique.
In 2018 switch sales will approach the cliff = people in 2014 saying 'MC will be death soon because MS is going to change things for the worse' both did not happy but some will still hope for the cliff of the death of MC.
The new IP discussion is getting old when so many MS studios literally getting bombarded with questions about making new games from old IPs, Obsidian, Rare, Double Fine etc are perfect examples.
konnichiwa said:
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. |
Good point.
In 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm (i.e. Star Wars), and in 2014 Microsoft bought Mojang. Ten years ago I though Disney made the better buy, but time has proved this to be wrong.
curl-6 bet me that PS5 + X|S sales would reach 56m before year end 2023 and he was right.
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The newest Momotaro was announced as passing 1.5 million shipped + digital this week, while it's at 1.2 million physically on this week's charts, which gives it a digital ratio of around 20%, not covering copies of shelves.
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Just beat jak and daxter
Incredible game
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Are JP figures coming out late this wk? Usually they're up by now...if im remembering the timing correctly.
| firebush03 said: Are JP figures coming out late this wk? Usually they're up by now...if im remembering the timing correctly. |
The whole week around New Year's is a holiday in Japan. Famitsu stated that the next sales report will be Monday 13 January, followed by another report on Thursday 16 January. Not sure if it will be W52 only or W52+W1 on the 13th. Then, whatever wasn't reported on 13th will be reported on 16th, so by then we will know up through W2 '25.
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Nintendo Switch in Japan is crazy, I really think that Switch 2 will boost tier parties games
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