Microsoft In Serious Discussion To Buy Mincraft Developers Mojang

[Henry 2,374]

Microsoft -the parent company of the Xbox and Windows brands -- is apparently "in serious discussions" to purchase Mojang, according to The Wall Street Journal. Mojang, of course, is best-known for its massively popular Minecraft series.

 

WSJ cites "a person with knowledge of the matter" in their story, and says the valuation of Mojang could be more than $2 billion. Microsoft and Mojang both declined to comment to WSJ; we've reached out to Mojang for additional comment.

 

Mojang, founded by developer Markus Persson in 2009, has two still-unreleased games in development -- Cobalt and Scrolls -- as well as Minecraft, which it's still endlessly iterating on with updates and ports.

 

Microsoft's investment to purchase Mojang, if true, would give the company complete control over not only the studio's upcoming games, but it's all-important, insanely lucrative Minecraft series. As of June, the game has sold over 54 million copies, and has actually sold best on consoles, which bodes well for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

 

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/09/microsoft-in-serious-discussions-to-purchase-minecraft-dev-mojang?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[RainingOnMe 7,184]

They shouldn't waste their money.

[FATCAT 55,820]

Notch and Jebb won't let it happen. He knows that he can make more than that if he keeps the business.

[cometoogg 0]

they always have the worst ideas

[SlaeUrAnus 14,743]

Trying to boost sales for their poor excuse of a console.

[Ladey Gagz 2,512]

[Dayman 5,897]

Nooooooooooooooooo

[Koreku 2,387]

the desperation for minecraft exclusively on xbox is real 

[uo111 5,201]

Something is wrong when 2 billion doesn't seem like that much to me

[Azor Ahai 18,861]

They should have done that when the game was at peak.

Its fading now.

[MonsterVSAnimal 0]

the desperation for minecraft exclusively on xbox is real

This. Just like how they have a contract with COD to release map packs a month earlier on Xbox than PS4. This is all a sad attempt to be better than the PS4. And that isn't gonna happen.