A $2.5 billion acquisition was made for the Swedish company Mojang. Makers of the wildly popular video game Minecraft. This is a slight departure from a refocused Microsoft, but the big question remains. Will the purchase ultimately help Microsoft win its supremacy battle with Sony in the current Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 war?
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I used to buy cheap games thinking I’d play them later, but I always ended up returning to my favorites. Now I skip the deals unless I know I’ll play the game soon.
This is very true, my nephews grew up on these two games and whenever I introduce them a AAA game whether old or new, it's like seeing an alien try to make sense of it and then quickly lose interest in it.
Can’t really expect a 8 year old Roblox kid to go buy resident evil 9 lol
Gaming trends are so weird to me now. Like, I’m old school and games were consumed essentially how movies were. You play through a title and look forward to the sequel or other things that came out. Now, that is so not the norm.
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Lol Nope. Anyways, Microsoft is so idiot, of course they gonna buy others companies, due to the lack of games for Xbone.
Everyone already has minecraft on every device they own and all the money from that is in mojang's pocket. Honestly not really sure what Microsoft plans on doing with it other than releasing sequels for it. And if they change it up too much it won't really be minecraft anymore.
- The game has made most of its sales already.
- The game is available on a multitude of devices other than the Xbox.
3 years ago, this investment would have been fantastic. They have put $2.5 billion into the hope of a single IP remaining stable. Mojang made $129m profit last year. It would take 2 decades for Microsoft to make back on their investment unless they have a gargantuan plan to make Minecraft blow up, when its already blown up and peaked as a franchise.
So, they would have to bring out an exclusive sequel that had the same mass appeal Minecraft had and it would have to be a fundamental improvement to what is already a massively customisable and open game, OR they would have to have Mojang make another hit as big and culturally significant as Minecraft (NOT happening), to make even a dent on the lead PS4 has.
In summary….. the answer is "no".
This acquisition is well beyond console wars. That's not why they did it.
Lmfao at this article, off course it can! ........ NOT