Console Monster writes: "Following weeks of speculation and rumours, Microsoft announced that they would be acquiring Minecraft developer Mojang for a whopping $2.5 billion (£1.5 billion).
In a statement that accompanied the announcement, the Xbox firm revealed that they were expecting to break-even on the acquisition as early as July 2015.
However, what else could Microsoft have purchased for the same price? Console Monster investigates."
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
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The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
There I was thinking it was going to be a serious article, how wrong was I
* They could have bought the Clippers.
#6. 2.5 instagrams? wth...
2.5 billion McDoubles to be passed out and ended hunger in the world.
For an hour.
You know. We all say they could buy this or that and I am one of the people who wish they invested this in games, but Microsoft didnt make billions of dollars a year making stupid moves.
they know what they are doing. They have a plan.