Re:Minecraft sales top 100M
by sandworm101 on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:49PM
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100 million sales. So? MS bought Minecraft for $2,500,000,000. At this point, for all it's popularity, Minecraft is still being subsidized by the other MS products. It has yet to reach profitability and might never do so ... at least for Microsoft. Notch certainly made his numbers.
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It's not about what it is today, it's about what it can become. Minecraft is firmly in the trajectory of becoming absolutely massive, and if nothing stops its pace in the next few years, it's not crazy for Microsoft to bet that it will become profitable at the price they paid in the next 5 years or so.
The cold hard numbers suggest that Minecraft is well past its peak. MS sold 50M copies for 2 years, which is ~ 70K/day. 2016 they have sold 50K/day. Also:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=minecraft
And really, 100M is already "absolutely massive" in my book. How much bigger can it grow? Will everyone on Earth be playng Minecraft?
Re:Minecraft sales top 100M
by whamlastxmas on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:33AM
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I believe that's 100 million COPIES sold, not $100 million in revenue. At $27/copy, you do the math.