Jacob St-Amour from Link-Cable Writes: "Mojang introduced Minecraft to gamers all the way back in 2009 and almost a decade has passed since its release and it is still considered a gaming phenomenon with more than 28 million copies sold worldwide. Its superb sales have led gaming giant in Microsoft to purchase the franchise and reaping the benefits of one of the popular titles dating back to the last generation. The series has been featured on a variety of platforms and in other media which has helped keep this gaming giant near the top. With all the success that surrounds the franchise, it is easy to imagine the potential for a sequel to Minecraft."
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
Ben Porter from Newzoo explains that the player base has very little overlap with mainstream hits such as Assassin's Creed: Shadows and Ghost of Yōtei
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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Mojang still seems like a one trick pony
I don’t know if Mojang willingly to make a another sequel.
Why would Mojang make a sequel after doing so much work on building upon the original game? It’d be a huge undertaking trying to outperform the original, plus so many people are going to still be invested in the original that it’d just create a whole swath of comparisons between Minecraft and its sequel.
I think it would be silly for Mojang to make MC2 now. Wait a few more years when the buzz has died down, then announce a sequel and inject some new life into the IP. No brainer.
Kinda pointless making a sequel right now.
Honestly that would kill Minecraft. Just keep building on the platform already there.