Minecraft is much, much more popular on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation than it is on Xbox...and rightly so given the sales differences between these platforms.
Below is a transcript of his testimony:
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Minecraft makes 4x more revenue on Switch than Xbox
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Minecraft is much, much more popular on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation than it is on Xbox...and rightly so given the sales differences between these platforms.
Below is a transcript of his testimony:
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At the time of the sale, I remember a lot of people were shocked at how much MS was willing to pay for Minecraft. Now, considering how many people play it, it looks like they got it for a bargain price. My nieces both have a Switch and it's their favourite game to play with their Dad.
Not to mention that it has, since that time, raised it's price, released spin-offs, convinced people to re-buy it across multiple platforms and helped sell other products. Was a real galaxy brain move to snap them up over other popular-at-the-time indie multiplayer experiences. Now if only their account support didn't take six fucking weeks to send me a "go get fucked" form letter after I realized my ancient account was anciently hacked.
Did the hacker do anything with your account? I've only played a demo of the game on PS3 so I don't know much about the possibilities.
He switched it to a different e-mail and changed the password! So its not my account anymore...
It sounds like the support team needed a little more training. You must have been pissed, I know I would have been.
Unfortunately I had a really old account, pre-Microsoft, from when you would buy Minecraft from the Minecraft website and it wouldn't be linked to anything. Then, two our three years ago I wanted to give Minecraft another play after a decade away and, welp...It sounds like the support team needed a little more training. You must have been pissed, I know I would have been.
So only around 14% (1 of each 7) Minecraft console copies sold is from Xbox.
Imagine if MS would turn Minecraft console exclusive and would lose most of that PS and Switch sales, because I highly doubt that a relevant percent of them would leave PS or Switch to play Minecraft on Xbox.
I think they'd stop earning a ton of revenue from Minecraft every year just to get a only few million users, it wouldn't make financial sense because the revenue lost from the other platforms wouldn't be compensated with the one they'd create in Xbox. I think it's financially suicide.
Same goes with making all Zenimax and ABK games exclusive and putting all of them day one on GP.
It would make more sense for MS to acquire them, to keep all of them full multi and not including them day one on GP, and then use part of that revenue/profit that Zenimax and ABK generate to create exclusive games with other studios, while only getting the Zenimax/ABK exclusivity for marketing, bundles, demos/beats and -included once they are old games that almost don't generate sales- gamesubs. Which seems to be what Sony plans to do with Bungie.
Imagine if MS would turn Minecraft console exclusive and would lose most of that PS and Switch sales, because I highly doubt that a relevant percent of them would leave PS or Switch to play Minecraft on Xbox.
I think they'd stop earning a ton of revenue from Minecraft every year just to get a only few million users, it wouldn't make financial sense because the revenue lost from the other platforms wouldn't be compensated with the one they'd create in Xbox. I think it's financially suicide.
Same goes with making all Zenimax and ABK games exclusive and putting all of them day one on GP.
It would make more sense for MS to acquire them, to keep all of them full multi and not including them day one on GP, and then use part of that revenue/profit that Zenimax and ABK generate to create exclusive games with other studios, while only getting the Zenimax/ABK exclusivity for marketing, bundles, demos/beats and -included once they are old games that almost don't generate sales- gamesubs. Which seems to be what Sony plans to do with Bungie.
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